The Fuzzball
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/database/papers/fuzz.pdf
Ah. PDP 11 running RT11 (the RT stands for real-time, you know, and it
was!). Bigger and much heavier than a breadbox it had a lot of power.
Oh, wait, I mean it *used* a lot of power. And you could modify it with
a
As I said, Windows is huge and evolving, and Sever is different from
regular Windows versions; be careful when mixing and matching versions.
Some of these technotes are pretty recent, like 2014 or 2015. See -
How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server
On Mon Jan 9 17:38:46 EST 2017 Zefram wrote:
"[Preben Nørager: So in a very long time-span the number of julian days can
no longer be used without cultural bias.] What do you mean by "cultural
bias" here? Are you just suggesting that TAI, by its artificiality, is an
example of cultural bias,
On Mon Jan 9 16:52:29 EST 2017 Steve Allen wrote:
"As noted by the IAU recommendation two decades ago, it is important for
the user to specify which time scale is being used for those days."
So if I were to count days in the proleptic gregorian calendar I were to
write number JD of the
Preben Norager wrote:
>Julian days count solar days.
They count whatever days they are applied to. Originally that was solar
days, of course.
>julian days somehow count from solar noon, and that is why I wrote the
>julian period count apparent solar days.
That's a misunderstanding. The Julian
On Mon 2017-01-09T22:45:19 +0100, Preben Nørager hath writ:
> Julian days count solar days.
No, Julian days count days.
Those can be "days" in whatever time scale.
The astronomical almanacs had a longstanding set of tables expressed
in Julian Ephemeris Date (J.E.D.) which was a count of days of
Dear Zefram, thank you for your comments. I have learned a lot from them,
and will only discuss a few.
On Mon Jan 9 13:57:13 EST 2017 you write:
"No, there's no tie between Julian Dates and apparent solar time. JDs can
be used equally well with apparent and mean solar time. JDs are in fact
On Mon Jan 9 13:49:20 EST 2017 Gerry Ashton wrote:
"As far as I can tell the Julian Period is no longer in use, although the
derivatives, Julian date and Julian day number, are widely used in science
and astronomy."
The julian period is the number of julian days since the start of the
julian
Preben Norager wrote:
> if leap seconds are abolished, then the
>gregorian calendar is implicitly forced on, because of the implicit
>connection between the international atomic timescale, and the gregorian
>calendar.
There is no such connection. TAI times are
Preben Norager wrote:
> The clock track either the sun (apparent time), or the seconds
>(mean time).
That's not correct. Both apparent and mean solar time are described
in seconds, and in both cases that's the angular second (1/86400
circle) rather than the second of physical time.
On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 13:41 +0100, Preben Nørager wrote:
> On Tue Jan 3 14:18:52 EST 2017, John Sauter wrote:
>
> "I regard leap seconds as a reasonable compromise between the needs
> of civil time and of science. Civil time needs a clock that tracks
> the days and the seasons. Science requires a
On Tue Jan 3 14:18:52 EST 2017, John Sauter wrote:
"I regard leap seconds as a reasonable compromise between the needs of
civil time and of science. Civil time needs a clock that tracks the days
and the seasons. Science requires a clock that measures time in precise
intervals. UTC provides both,
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