[time-nuts] What's the time Mr Wolf...

[J.D. Bakker]

At 02:09 +1300 31-10-2008, Steve Rooke wrote:
>                                 it's not always easy to formulate a
>phrase to trigger the answer required out of Google and which sources
>should I go to or believe.

Fair enough. For your first six questions, I'd use keywords including 
"nist" and "time", and start following links from there. For the GPS 
stuff handy keywords include "navstar", "usno" and "gpsworld".

Good luck,

JDB.
[from a somewhat different (sub)culture, but this may be useful too: 
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ]
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