Leap Second this Year
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- Ambush Commander
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Not much really... they're just squabbling about syncing the two systems
I say switch to atomic and abolish the obviously less accurate and inferior method which is the subject of this debate. But that's just me.
I say switch to atomic and abolish the obviously less accurate and inferior method which is the subject of this debate. But that's just me.
Classic overdramatization by the scientists. It would be dozens of decades without syncing that a problem would even be in the multi-hour range.Ultimately, without leap seconds, clocks would have no relevance to day and night, critics complain. "It could one day mean it says noon on our watches, but it's midnight outside," said Jonathan Betts, a curator of horology at the Greenwich Observatory.
Classic "let's make it another generations problem" approach by the US gov't. Though, I sort of agree with this stance, but more often than 500 years... I mean, what the hell, that's a little too "projected" IMO.The U.S. plan actually would keep the sun and clocks generally in sync by adding a "leap hour" every 500 or 600 years as the extra seconds pile up, a switch more acceptable to technology that copes with the spring forward, fall back adjustment for Daylight Saving Time each year.
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- trukfixer
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there is - Swatch Internet Time , for example
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/internet_time/
http://www.csgnetwork.com/csgbmtcvt.html
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/internet_time/
http://www.csgnetwork.com/csgbmtcvt.html
GPSs are very uber leet indeed, they even take into account the theory of relativity (since their frame of reference is different then yours, so they are effectively moving through time differently then you). I'm pretty sure the reason the time has to be so accurate is it measures the latency [for lack of a better word] (and effectively distance) between you and the satellites, and doing that from multiple satellites triangulates your position (relative to all the satellites)
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eh, I just thought id put this disclaimer
im not gps expert by any means but all this stuff i've heard and am pretty sure it's true, go google it if you're in doubt
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eh, I just thought id put this disclaimer
im not gps expert by any means but all this stuff i've heard and am pretty sure it's true, go google it if you're in doubt