[time-nuts] Re: Is there an application for time-stamping with absolute time?

[Joe Fitzgerald]

On 7/12/2024 4:03 PM, Tom Van Baak via time-nuts wrote:
> Â I'm told power companies used these products to locate faults along 
> transmission lines, a clever use of GPS.


It is curious to talk about standardized time stamps for power company 
telemetry.    I spend my days managing the flow of data between sources 
and sinks using various electrical grid protocols, and there are at 
least 37 different standard ways of specifying the time of a measurement 
- and they are not always definitive. For example the DNP3 standard says 
something to the effect of "Leap seconds,  yes we have heard of them.    
We are not sure what to do about them so it is up to end users to figure 
it out on their own"


-Joe Fitzgerald