Here is a post from another list for those needing accurate time. patrick Begin forwarded message:
From: Ted Blank Subject: [IOTAoccultations] time.gov website updated Date: 13 March 2014 at 06:23:30 MDT To: iotaoccultations <IOTAoccultations@yahoogroups.com>
Some information from Andrew Novick at NIST:
www.time.gov has been updated. Some new features are: 12/24 hour clock toggle and the time is actually corrected for the path delay through the Internet. This is an HTML5 (cross-platform-compatible) site that requires no plugins. There is no intro map to click - the site automatically determines your time zone, based on your computer clock settings.
LCD monitors may add a few milliseconds of delay before actually displaying a screen, so if you video-record the time.gov time display on an LCD monitor next to the accurate 1-PPS pulse of an IOTA-VTI box, the time.gov time might still show slightly behind the 1-PPS pulses on your video recording. I understand that old-fashioned CRT monitors should have much less internal delay in displaying the website time than LCD monitors, so time.gov time displayed on a CRT monitor should line up more closely with the VTI pulses. I have not checked this because I got rid of my last CRT display quite a while ago. I'm sure I can find one around for free to check this.
Ted Blank
Speaking of time, there is a DST rant on CN currently, and I posted that people who don't like the nuances and idiosyncrasies of civil time should just run their lives on UT. I pointed out that it never changes, except rarely when they add an additional second to account for minute changes in the earth's rotation rate. One person replied "I hate it when that happens!" Lol! On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net>wrote:
Here is a post from another list for those needing accurate time.
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