From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 29 21:57:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.webweaving.org (adsl-66-124-87-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.124.87.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3665B37B400 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 21:57:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.covalent.net (localhost.covalent.net [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by mobile.webweaving.org (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g2U0tBU20710; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:55:11 -0800 (PST) X-Curiosity: Killed the Cat X-Huis-aan-Huis-deur-sticker: nee-nee X-Spam: no X-Passed: MX on Gandalf.WebWeaving.org Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:55:11 -0800 (PST) and masked X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:55:11 -0800 (PST) From: dirkx@covalent.net X-X-Sender: dirkx@gandalf.leiden.webweaving.org To: dp@penix.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS time. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just connected my gps (garmin gps III plus) to my serial port > and realized that simply cat'ing cua0 displays date/time/position of the > unit. (neato). Anyway, how accurate would it be to use the time from this > output for ntp as opposed to my current setup using ntp servers. I believe that the CD pin has/can-be-configured to have a 1PPS on it. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message