Comment Re:Better way? (Score 1) 289
Why doesn't NTP give both UTC and TAI (or GPS)?
Or devise a similar system with as only difference that it gives TAI or GPS.
Why doesn't NTP give both UTC and TAI (or GPS)?
Or devise a similar system with as only difference that it gives TAI or GPS.
Use another time standard if it bothers you. UTC is meant to be corrected with leap seconds.
If leap seconds don't matter: use TAI.
DST aligns it better. Noon shifts through the year because the Earth orbit is not completely round.
What we see as a day is the sum of two effects:
1. The rotation of the earth around it's axis. This takes about 23 hours and 56 minutes. Understand it as "relative to the stars in the background". It is called sidereal time.
2. Our orbit around the sun. This adds 4 minutes to each day. If the earth would not rotate relative to the stars in the background this would still cause one "day" per year.
Total is approximately 24 hours.
The rotation around our axis is relatively constant. Sufficiently constant for this.
The orbital speed is not constant. The orbit is not round, there is a point where the planet is closer to the sun. The closer the earth is to the sun the faster it goes.
The faster the earth goes the more degrees per hour the sun movement by the day-caused-by-our-orbit is.
This causes noon to shift approximately 1 hour during the day.
DST corrects for that.
Having said that: we should kill DST. The lost productivity it causes is enough reason.
On mercury this effect is so strong that the sun can be seen going backwards during a part of the day(if there was an observer there).
Depends on the crud. Sometimes a base is much better.
Hundreds of million people care. This might push a lot of them in the right direction and that may be enough to prevent the worst of what's coming for us.
It gives me hope.
I don't care that is not radical. I care that he wrote it. I care that such an influential man takes the same stance as I do. I care that he influences hundreds of millions and that he pushes them in the right direction on this issue.
I care that this might actually help.
If you cut and paste this message I will raid your kid's college fund.
Happy New Year!
I didn't know I had a kid.
Spotify can store the data on your device and update playlists when there is wifi.
You just need a large-ish storgage in the phone. My Spotify music folder is 9.25 GB. It is on the external SD card if that is available so it doesn't clutter your internal memory.
My most important reasons: not dependent on Internet (ergo more reliable) and less data usage.
Having a mosh pit in a museum just doesn't seem wise. It does combine well with alcohol though.
If you are not a troll then you are an idiot. Drinking and driving is a bad plan.
Replicators run it.
Trol?
no insurance
When you drive drunk insurance isn't going to help you. They won't pay (rightfully).
Wishing without work is like fishing without bait. -- Frank Tyger