Wow. Very good way of putting it Haywood.
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM, G.W. Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Mag Gam wrote: > >> If tools like ntpq didn't exist how does one measure time? > > He'd probably start with a piece of string and a lump of lead, and > then take it from there. > >> Lets say I am trying to compare X number of time protocols and I want >> to see which one is the closest to a stratum 1 or GPS clock, how >> should I go about measuring the skew? What is the scientific way of >> doing this? > > What does "scientific" mean? > > Light travels about a thousand feet in a microsecond. > > The two of us stand a thousand feet apart, signal to each other to > check our watches, and write down the time. Then one walks toward > the other until we meet, and we compare notes, and we compare our > watches. Which one of us will have written down the correct time? > Will our watches agree when we meet? > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
