<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Even moving floors is enough to cause headaches these days!<br></div><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div>"At F1's level of precision, even general relativity introduces problems; when technicians recently moved F1 from the third floor to the second, they had to re-tune the system to compensate for the 11-and-a-half foot drop in altitude."<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 November 2012 17:00, Sean K. Finn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean.finn@ozservers.com.au" target="_blank">sean.finn@ozservers.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I believe these guys measure Time and Time Distortion to compensate and be aware of exactly how much time dilation is taking place.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.measurement.gov.au/ScienceTechnology/Pages/TimeandFrequencyResearch.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.measurement.gov.au/ScienceTechnology/Pages/TimeandFrequencyResearch.aspx</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We are in a (small) gravity well, after all.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">S<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Wilkins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a></span></p><div class="im"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Q about time zones especially UTC<u></u><u></u></div>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I'm sure time drift on satellites from Einsteinian time dilation is a pain.<br><br>Paul Wilkins<u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5">
<div><p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Ian Henderson <<a href="mailto:ianh@ianh.net.au" target="_blank">ianh@ianh.net.au</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">On 21/11/2012, at 3:08 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <<a href="mailto:mmc@mmc.com.au" target="_blank">mmc@mmc.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
>> UTC.<br>><br>> HQT.<br>><br>> (HeadQuartersTime).<br><br>What timezone do you set on servers in the cloud, considering they could migrate themselves to any physical location? Fun times in the future when inter-planetary vMotion is commonplace. :P</p>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>-- <br>Andrew Lau<br>Systems Engineer<br>Fairfax Media<br><br>T:  02 9282 3445<br>E: <a href="mailto:alau@fairfaxmedia.com.au" target="_blank">alau@fairfaxmedia.com.au</a><br>

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