[time-nuts] Google's Spanner uses GPS and atomic time

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 02:53:18 UTC 2012


And yes thank god we are cutting funding to those pesky satellites. Seems
we can't afford them anymore. But fortunately other countries are filling
our gap slow but surely.
There was an article this month in GNSS about the funding cuts.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:11 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:

> The US, foolishly IMO, has killed LORAN-C and is killing WWVB. Hence my
> comment. Essentially, GPS is soon going to be the sole source of a
> standard of time interval.
>
> It is going to take a disaster of some kind to return sanity.
>
> -John
>
> ===========
>
>
>
> > John writes:
> >
> >> Seems like a good reason to have LORAN-C or some other backup/sanity
> >> check.
> >
> > What LORAN? I thought the U.S. had shut down all LORAN transmissions
> > in order to enhance the vulnerability of navigation systems in the
> > U.S. (?).
> >
> > --
> > Anthony
> >
> >
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