[atlas]probe locations

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 :-)
>