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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:31:27 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de>
Cc:        pol@leissner.se (Peter Olsson), questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Public NTP-servers?
Message-ID:  <9604031531.AA14260@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199604030624.IAA17152@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>
References:  <2.2.32.19960402174451.007070e8@lda> <199604030624.IAA17152@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de>

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<<On Wed, 3 Apr 96 9:38:59 MET DST, Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> said:

> My question is, why do you want to do it this way?  Your time accuracy
> is limited by propagation time, and in Germany at any rate you can get
> low-cost time receivers which are much more accurate.  In addition,
> you're guaranteed not to have any network charges.

DCF77 doesn't have a good signal outside of Central Europe.  ``Real''
(GPS) timecode receivers are much, much more expensive than sending a
short packet every 64 seconds.

-GAWollman

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