Re: Twins paradox debunked and broken down

Michael Moroney wrote:
"Spaceman" <spaceman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Michael Moroney wrote:

Oh ya sure Mikey, we were all using Internet time in the 70's.

What the hell is "Internet time"? NTP? (From what source?)


That alone lets me just say screw off Mikey.
You are so lost it does not matter what I try to inform you about

No, tell me. What is "internet time"? In all my years on the net,
I've never heard of "internet time". Tell me.

It is what a lot of ISP servers and large corperations sync their
networks clocks to so all the computers will have the same
times on them.

So, it appears that what Space*** refers to as "internet time" is his
made-up name for, collectively, NTP time services or other time
services (such as GPS or WWV/WWVB), most of which ultimately derive
their time from NIST atomic clocks.

Poor Mikey,
He thinks I made up the term.
Poor Mikey
He thinks the atomic clocks are not adjusted to GMT.
LOL

also Cable companies and TV stations use it to set
Cable boxes and program times to run at the correct time
for all to know when to sit down foryour favorite shows.

In the past they used means other than the internet for sources of
their time.

Public broadcast used to do such, and still does Mikey.



It is also built into Windows XP and Vista and there is software
for just about every OS to also connect to it for such.

That software uses the NTP protocol. There are other protocols not
much used now.

BTW there is no defined "it" (second "it" in the quoted sentence).
NTP just synchs time of one computer from another. They keep track of
"distance" from an authorative time source (stratum). On the internet
most will eventually track back to a nist.gov server. A few months
ago, I set up a few servers to use a GPS clock as an NTP time source,
and to keep synch with each other should the GPS source fail. Very
simple task. Couldn't use nist.gov over the net since this is an
isolated network.

See
http://www.time.gov/about.html

This is just a description of a web site interface with a javascript
clock with a very good time base.

It is a lot more than that if you actually click around.
I see you did not do such.


Do you run Windows XP or Vista?
look at your clock properties and settings tabs.
I think Win98 might have had it also but not sure, it's been
a while for that one for me.

This is just NTP time services.

Yes, the official name for Internet time.
Woop de dooo.
Again, you dance around instead of realizing that NTP uses
atomic clocks and those clocks are adjusted to match UTC
for noon, to remain... noon.
Poor Mikey He don't like it, he actually won't eat it now.
LOL


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