mills@DCN6.ARPA (11/01/85)
Folks, They think our giant panda is pregnant, which might be a good omen. Nevertheless, today an ionospheric glitch blitzed our WWVB radio clock and the host caring for our WWV clock was several times off-net. Our ritzy new clock-backup features built into the local-net protocols switched everything around so our timestamps served to the world had nary a hiccup. However, turns out our third backup (GOES at Ford Research) had the wrong patchcords, so they were tracking us. The result was that we both walked the plank, but never swayed off more than a couple of hundred milliseconds, which is an eon around here. It was the intent that the GOES clock be the Ford primary, while their sfirst backup be us and second backup be a WWV clock at U Michigan. Grin while you might at all this ticking and tocking, but it's great fun and something refreshingly different. But, as the Potomac Electic technocrat said when I asked howcum they couldn't keep their clocks straighter, it's not a tariffed service... Dave -------