Re: GPS Unit for Timekeeping on Linux?

dold_at_XReXXGPSXU.usenet.us.com
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:29:06 +0000 (UTC)

W. Watson <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> wrote:
> more accurate the times the better. Right now the drift is in the order
> of several minutes per month. Synching once a day might do the trick, but

I had a UnixWare system that drifted about 20 seconds per day, but it was
very consistent. I connected via dialup once a day and sync'd the clock,
noticing the error. Then I set a once-a-day cron job that did a "date -a"
adjustment of the proper amount, deduced from the earlier error
observations, and reduced my dialup to once a week. The error each week
was less than one second. 

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA  38.8-122.5
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