Re: Drift handling....

Martin Burnicki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got the feeling that some clarification is required on drift
> values.
>
> Let's have a look at an example:
>
> Say you have some wristwatches and you want to check whether they are
> accurate, or not. On the television there is a clock displayed
> whenever a news programme is broadcasted. You trust that clock and
> see that one wristwatch goes ahead by 1 minute every day, another one
> by 20 seconds, and a 3rd one by just one second.
[]
> Martin

Martin, I feel this is quite a good analogy.

(Although, with some British TV stations timekeeping is very bad: (a) they
no longer broadcast either the time pips or a clock showing the time, (b)
there is a processing delay of a few frames in analog TV due to image
processing and (c) the delay in digital TV means it is several seconds
behind analog TV.)

You don't normally expect the drift on your watch to change unless you do
something stupid like drop it onto concrete, so if the news was off time
one day, in the first instance you might like to believe your watch rather
than the TV - the football had overrun it's time! However, if the news
gets further and further off time over a period of a few days, then
perhaps it's your watch and not the TV station which is wrong!

[Your own leap-second results are most impressive, thanks for posting
them.]

Cheers,
David


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