Re: GPS Unit for Timekeeping on Linux?

From: W. Watson (wolf_tracks_at_invalid.inv)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:06:17 GMT

kashe@sonic.net wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:08:33 GMT, "W. Watson"
> <wolf_tracks@invalid.inv> wrote:
>
>
>>I have a meteor application that operates a camera from sundown to sunrise, and the
>>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'd like to see it
>>automated, so that I wouldn't have to dial up the internet. If the application were
>>near my most frequently used computer, the one in my house, I'd probably be inclined
>>to manually update the time by the network every day; however, it is a building 100
>>feet away and going out there every day is not something I think about much.
>>
>>I know there are manual techniques in Linux to refine the times, but I don't
>>presently have a lot of confidence in them. In particular, it appears if Linux goes
>>down unexpectedly, one gets to start all over with the refinement. My system seems to
>>crash about once every two weeks. I could be wrong about having to start almost from
>>scratch on the refinement. It's something I should explore.
>
>
> Depending on what OS you're running on the house system, you
> could get an NTP app which is capable of acting as both client and
> server. AboutTime is such an app for Windows. At that point, you could
> set up the remote Linux system with a wireless link to the house
> system. Set an appropriate interval for the house system to get the
> time from the net (as a client), then let it act as a server for the
> remote system's NTP app.
That might be workable, since I do have an ethernet connection between the two
computers. However, the one in the house in Win XP. I'm not sure Linux and Win are
easy to network. 

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