[AusNOG] Q about time zones especially UTC

Andrew Lau alau at fairfaxmedia.com.au
Fri Nov 23 09:35:56 EST 2012


Even moving floors is enough to cause headaches these days!

"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."

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_nist<http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/time_nist?currentPage=all>


On 21 November 2012 17:00, Sean K. Finn <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au> wrote:

> I believe these guys measure Time and Time Distortion to compensate and be
> aware of exactly how much time dilation is taking place.****
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> http://www.measurement.gov.au/ScienceTechnology/Pages/TimeandFrequencyResearch.aspx
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> We are in a (small) gravity well, after all.****
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:
> ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Paul Wilkins
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:27 PM
> *To:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Q about time zones especially UTC****
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> I'm sure time drift on satellites from Einsteinian time dilation is a pain.
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> Paul Wilkins****
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Ian Henderson <ianh at ianh.net.au> wrote:**
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> On 21/11/2012, at 3:08 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au> wrote:
> >> UTC.
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> > HQT.
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> > (HeadQuartersTime).
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> 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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Andrew Lau
Systems Engineer
Fairfax Media

T:  02 9282 3445
E: alau at fairfaxmedia.com.au
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