Getting the time over the phone from NBS

Bob Sutterfield bob at MorningStar.Com
Thu Jan 18 04:30:08 AEST 1990


In article <899 at tridom.uucp> wht at tridom.uucp (Warren Tucker) writes:
   v03i079 contains a GREAT program utc.c which allows your system to
   mimic NBS and provide esentially the same service via a local call.
   Only the most ultimate time freaks who've replaced their PC's
   crystal with an atomic clock can tell the difference (I'm pretty
   bad, but not that bad) :-).

I'd hope that only folks either running a local radio clock, or a low-
stratum NTP peer, would offer their system's time as a community
standard.  However, this would be a really nice service for Internet-
connected folks to offer to their UUCP-only neighbors.



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