Re: [LEAPSECS] google abandons NTP ?

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Allen
On Mon 2012-11-26T18:30:09 +, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: > Uhm, they run PTP, so what ? That doesn't quite seem to be the case. The paper is at http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf In that is The under

Re: [LEAPSECS] google abandons NTP ?

2012-11-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20121126174849.ge24...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >As seen on the tz e-mail list, google has something that might >want to put a Symmetricom trademark after the name > >http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/all/ Uhm, they run PTP, so what ?

[LEAPSECS] google abandons NTP ?

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Allen
As seen on the tz e-mail list, google has something that might want to put a Symmetricom trademark after the name http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/all/ It may be too late for the ITU-R to act. And google, beware, for at the picosecond level there is not a single t

Re: [LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 72, Issue 3

2012-11-26 Thread Kevin . Birth
I view this incident with some relief. A mistake was noticed and addressed relatively quickly. In a classic experiment by Rotter, people continued to believe the time given by a clock when it was running at only 25% its normal rate. Rotter, George. 1969. "Clock-Speed as an Independent Vari

Re: [LEAPSECS] USNO NTP incident of 2012-11-19

2012-11-26 Thread mike cook
Le 26 nov. 2012 à 01:26, Steve Allen a écrit : > On Sun 2012-11-25T19:59:14 +, Matsakis, Demetrios hath writ: >> And I suppose many on this list will have even more to say ... > Like you Steve, I think the silence is basically due to what you are complaining about, that is the lack of avai