[atlas]probe locations
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Richard L. Barnes
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Mon Dec 6 05:18:04 CET 2010
FWIW, I've left email and voicemail on this topic with the US National Science Foundation Division of Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics -- the guys that run infrastructural things (like networks) down there. We'll see if they reply... --Richard On Dec 5, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote: > Rene Wilhelm wrote: > > [...] >> South pole would already be tricky. Which longitude to use for the probe? >> Anything between 180W and 180E is valid! And by the looks of it, it would >> fall off of the google map :-) >> >> -- Rene > > NTP would possibly be even more tricky. > > On my way to Cartagena, CO, on he plane, occasionally, I had a look at the > map of Antarctica, the research stations and the timezones used "over there" :-) > > It turns out that there are 3 different approaches in use: > > - same as "at home" > - something close to the timezone based on location (= other than the pole) > - same as the port of departure from <$whereever> to the station on A. > > :-) but UTC may help in all of these cases.... > > Wilfried. > > PS: I was even considering to take our 3rd one with me to ICANN @ Cartagena, > would have been fun, as I've got 24x7 network access in the hotel, for > about a week :-) >
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