Program to set clock to NBS time

[Earle Ake]

In article <4042 at dah.sub.org>, ed at dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes:
> jmc at teqsoft.UUCP (Jack Cloninger) writes:
> 
>>I am posting this for a friend from the SCO Mailing List who does not
>>have access to this newsgroup (Joe Huffman). Joe was responding to the
>>following request from another party on the mailing list.  The
>>following is the text of Joe's original posting and the uuencoded and
>>compressed source for nbs_time.c which sets the local computer time to
>>the time supplied by a dial-up connection to a Time Standards system.
> 
> Out of curiosity, I dialed the number (+1 202 653 0351) contained
> in the source and got the following sent to my terminal at 1200 bps:
> 
>      48253 362 214838 UTC
>      *
>      48253 362 214839 UTC
>      *
>      48253 362 214840 UTC
> 
>    [... etc. at one second intervals ]
> 
> The question is:  does anyone know of a comparable service here on 
> the European continent?  Maybe even here in Germany?

     48253 362 214840 UTC
       |    |    |
       |    |    + Current GMT time
       |    |
       |    + Day of the year number (28 DEC)
       |
       + Number of days past 17 Nov 1858 (a time keeping standard but I can't
		remember why right now)

Earle
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