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Re: Getting and setting time for client, how?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lilo)
Sat Jul 15 10:42:07 1995
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 06:30:57 -0500 (CDT)
From: lilo <TaRDiS@mail.utexas.edu>
To: Linux Net Mailing List <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
cc: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>, drew@poohsticks.org,
GeisJ@rnd3.indy.tce.com
In-Reply-To: <XAA06173@sys3.pe1chl.ampr.org>
On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist wrote:
> With proper kernel patches it is possible to PLL this clock to a
> pulse-per-second receiver that receives one of the time standard transmitters
> available on Longwave or Shortwave.
> I keep my clock within about 20us (day) or 200us (night) jitter from
> one of these time standard signals. The jitter is caused mostly by
> propagation effects, I think.
> (I have sent the patches to Linus but they don't appear in the kernel
> for some reason unknown to me)
I'm also curious about this. I run xntpd and it would be very helpful
IMO to have these patches integrated into the 1.3.x kernels.
Speaking of which, where can I obtain your patches? I'm running 1.3.10
at present....
lilo
