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- From: stodola@orion.fccc.edu (Robert K. Stodola)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
- Subject: Bell of PA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.161155.4773@fccc.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 16:11:55 GMT
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- Organization: Fox Chase Cancer Center
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- This is probably a FAQ question, but...
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- When I first put up NTP (a long time ago), I noted that Bell of PA time was
- two seconds faster than my computers time. Today its off by the same two
- seconds. One of them is obviously very reliably wrong (I lean towards
- Bell). It does seem rather curious, especially since its fast rather than
- slow, which might be explained by other types of delays.
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- I know the phone company would probably tell me that in a disagreement between
- reality and Bell, they are definitive, but if anyone has an explanation of
- this phenomena, I'd like to hear it.
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- stodola@fccc.edu -- Robert K. Stodola (occasionally) speaks for himself.
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