John Kasupski wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:35:32 -0800, David wrote:
They could put the new station on 60 kHz as well. If they can't get
them adequately synchronized they could alternate every 30 minutes or
whatever. This would avoid everyone having to buy new watches. Any
commercial entity who really needs accurate time switched over to GPS a
decade ago.
Joke's on them. GPS time is implemented by the atomic clocks in the
GPS ground control stations and the GPS satellites themselves. Since
it is not updated with leap seconds, GPS is currently ahead of UTC by
14 seconds.
Easily compensated for in the software.
http://www.ese-web.com/