Nov. 26, 2012
10:22 p.m.
On Mon 2012-11-26T13:10:03 -0800, Eric Fischer hath writ:
I'm no NTP expert so I'm not sure what it does differently, but the more detailed paper is at http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html
In which it looks as if google has taken on the task of creating its own global time scale (a task previously only attempted by national governments and international agencies) and that the "leap smear" is implemented as part of that time scale. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m