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Humour Re: Interesting stratum 1 NTP clock

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Mansfield)
Thu Jun 25 13:07:47 1998

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:57:01 +0100 (BST)
From: Paul Mansfield <paulm@uk.psi.com>
To: Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com>
cc: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199806242025.NAA07001@kumr.lns.com>


we synchronize from the NTP server attached to Stonehenge... the first silicon
based clock.

not very accurate, and useless when its cloudy, but great for predicting the
next ice-age.

sorry, I couldn't resist

(to explain, for those historically challenged, I found this on altavista...
	http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/studyRes/my-town/cs93dlh/stone.htm
)

Paul
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