[AusNOG] Q about time zones especially UTC

[Lloyd Wood]

Only really for GPS broadcast.

For many satellites and spacecraft, thermal stress in day/night cycling contributes far more to clock drift than relativity does.

(best example of attempting to impose HQT and having it fail: Swatch Internet time, which was based on Bern local time rather than UTC, because that's where Swatch was headquartered)



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 From: Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net 
Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 15:27
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Q about time zones especially UTC
 

I'm sure  time drift on satellites from Einsteinian time dilation is a pain.

Paul Wilkins


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Ian Henderson <ianh at ianh.net.au> wrote:

On 21/11/2012, at 3:08 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au> wrote:
>>> UTC.
>>
>> HQT.
>>
>> (HeadQuartersTime).
>
>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
>
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