Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:43:40 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need a clock for NTP Message-ID: <19990708104340.A6425@enst.fr> In-Reply-To: <3782A8FF.97708CFF@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:10:23PM -0600 References: <19990705230337.A33121@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <3782488A.6F205377@softweyr.com> <19990706203853.A71421@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <3782A8FF.97708CFF@softweyr.com>
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On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:10:23PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > The prices are certainly great. I wish they had an english web page. > Radio clocks in general work pretty well as long as you're not looking > for a way to set clocks after power failures; they take a day or two > to become really accurate. That doesn't include "raw" DCF77 clocks. These clocks just generate a series of pulses received through an AM antenna, and ntpd decodes this. It just takes 90 seconds average at startup to get in sync (0 to 60 seconds to sync with the beginning of a message, then 60 seconds to get a complete message). -- Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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