In message <20060108151739.GA2665_at_ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:
>> Something as simple as
>>
>> finger ut1_at_bipm.fr
>>
>> Or even just a more stringent formatting of the bulletins on the ftp
>> site could do it as well.
>
>I do not believe that any of the IERS bureaus have internet
>connections and servers which are anywhere near robust and redundant
>enough to make that a reliable service.
>
>There is a lot that could and should be done.
I'm certainly starting to get the impression that a modernization
project to move the "time-lords" a few decades forward would not
be out of order.
>(Despite some NTP servers which reportedly still have not acknowledged
>the leap second, I think the overall indications are that the NTP
>network did better than 50 %.)
My estimate is 50-70% of the pool.ntp.org servers did something close
enough to the right thing.
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Received on Sun Jan 08 2006 - 08:06:28 PST