Re: The ends won't justify the means

From: Steve Allen <sla_at_ucolick.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:27:32 -0800

On Mon 2005-01-24T10:13:47 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
> How (precisely) can we improve the distribution of time signals to
> the worldwide communities that depend on them?

I know that NIST has folks working on this.
I suspect that they are talking with folks at NRL and PTB
and GPS/Navstar and Galileo.

I can't say who or what for the same reasons Rob mentions.

One such reason is succinctly phrased at the end of this posting
in the eternal discussion thread about POSIX time_t behavior:

http://www.opengroup.org/platform/single_unix_specification/show_mail.tpl?source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=7777

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