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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:12:42 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: good NTP servers
Message-ID:  <199601311812.LAA10118@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0thXbb-0000SMC@pelican.com> from "Pete Carah" at Jan 31, 96 00:09:00 am

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> USNO are *not* _using_ gps; it's the other way around.  They feed the
> gps system its sync (probably via the USAF).

How are they syncing Cesium clocks at multiple locations?

There are relativistic effects from moving a presynced clock, running
two clocks at different gravities (altitude/surface mass density) and
angular rotation rates (lattitude, and altitude again: distance from
axis of rotation).

They *must* sync by knowing relative position and relative sync
differential based on local relativistic effects in the sync source
and destination.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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