On Jan 2, 2007, at 05:15, Zefram wrote:
> A technical issue: broadcast time signals are phase-locked with the
> carrier, which is at some exact number of hertz. If the time
> pulses are
> every civil second, and that is now 1.000000015 s (as it was in 1961),
> it can't be synchronised with the (say) 60 kHz carrier that must still
> have exactly 60000 cycles per SI second.
The obvious solution is to transmit rubber time on a rubber frequency.
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Ashley Yakeley
Received on Tue Jan 02 2007 - 11:47:24 PST