Playing With Atomic Clocks At Home 167
Wired is running a profile of the Time Nuts, a small group of people who buy surplus precision time equipment — cesium clocks for example — on eBay and keep really accurate time, because they can. The article quotes Tom Van Baak, who has outfitted a time lab superior to those of many small countries: "If you have one clock... you are peaceful and have no worries. If you have two clocks... you start asking, 'What time is it, really?'"
Re:Clearly.... (Score:2, Interesting)
> is when you're trying to record a TV show
Just because you have limited imagination..
For example, when correlating long-baseline interferometer data
from amateur radio astronomers there is ABSOLUTELY a requirement
to have sub-millisecond accuracy.
And that's just one example from recent experience.
How to set? (Score:3, Interesting)
'Time is an illusion... (Score:2, Interesting)
Ford Prefect. Which is very apt, because today is Mos Def's birthday.