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:
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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 :-)