Klarinet Archive - Posting 000119.txt from 2000/06

From: Keith <100012.1302@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] klarinet Digest 5 Jun 2000 08:15:00 -0000 Issue 2304
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:57:11 -0400

Message text written by INTERNET:klarinet@-----.org
>I have this clock in my room that's exactly correct twice a day, and one=

that I used when I was in the military that was exact only once a day.

The government always gets it wrong :^)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Shapiro" <pshapiro@-----.com>

> You should download the small program called NIS-Time. It's from the
> bureau of standards and will set you clock vie the net to one of the
> govt's atomic clocks.
<

Actually in this case they got it right! I'm on the National Academy of =

Sciences Evaluation Panel for the NIST (National Institute of =

Standards and Technology, the newish name for National Bureau =

of Standards) Physics Laboratory, which is responsible for the atomic =

clock and research therein - it really is a fantastic piece of work and a=
=

well run program. The clock sites cope pretty effortlessly with several =

million hits a month.

NIST is one of the very best of government labs anywhere in the world, IM=
O.

Keith Bowen

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