[LEAPSECS] New time scale name

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20100813112006.17784.qmail at protonet.co.za>
            p at 2038bug.com writes:

: Jonathan E. Hardis writes: 

: 

: > On Aug 13, 2010, at 5:00 AM, p at 2038bug.com wrote: 

: >> All this talk of GMT/UTC/Legislature makes me ask how the world

: >> currently syncs their time.

: > http://www.bipm.org/en/scientific/tai/tai.html The best method is

: > Two-Way Satellite Time and Frequency Transfer (TWSTFT), utilized by

: > those laboratories with green dots.  The others use some method of GPS

: > common-view, such as Single Channel (SC) or Multi-Channel (MC).

: 

: 

: This is not how 100's of millions of computers on the Internet sync

: their time.

: 

: It is merely how a handful of scientific labs sync their time. 


GPS time sync is a lot more common than that.  Somewhere between tens
and hundreds of thousands of GPS-driven NTP servers are sold every
year.

Warner