From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 8:13:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns3.safety.net (ns3.safety.net [216.40.201.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8704837B41A for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from les@localhost) by ns3.safety.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) id g2UG95A15097; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 09:09:05 -0700 From: Les Biffle Message-Id: <200203301609.g2UG95A15097@ns3.safety.net> Subject: Re: GPS time. In-Reply-To: <20020330142859.GA19243@ussenterprise.ufp.org> To: Leo Bicknell Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 09:09:05 -0700 (MST) Cc: Paul Halliday , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > In a message written on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 06:04:11PM -0600, Paul Halliday wrote: > > 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. > > Your NTP servers are better. If you want to buy an appropriate GPS for this, you may wish to check the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio site (www.tapr.org) and look at the Motorola Oncore UT+ board. For around $200 you can have a stratum 1 quality time reference. Regards, -Les -- Les Biffle (480) 585-4099 les@safety.net http://www.les.safety.net/ Network Safety Corp., 5831 E. Dynamite Blvd., Cave Creek, AZ 85331 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message