In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: >> Certainly. But what's your point? I don't see these utilities failing >> if a second slips here or there. The one case where time is critical >> is the power grid, and they keep their own time (Which, IIRC >> approximates UTC). > >The long term average of the power grid in the US is 60.000 Hz.
Are you sure this is still the case ? Here in the "NordPool" area in nothern europe, 50Hz average went out the window with the deregulation of the electricity grid because nobody wanted to be forced to provide the extra power during one season to gain back what was lost during the other. And before that, the short term variations were on the order of a year... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
