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- From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: U.S. Naval Observatory and AtomClock
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.134054.14968@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 13:40:54 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.142946.11446@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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- In article 11446@news.weeg.uiowa.edu, bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil) writes:
- >From article <65627@cup.portal.com>, by Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser):
- >> I'm using a version of AtomClock written by Art Steinmetz andthe
- >> docs for it are dated 5/30/89.
- >
- >Has anybody tried this on a 2.04 3000 or 3000T? I tried and it rebooted my
- >machine. Not the desired result! It didn't even set the clock right!
- >
- >Can someone fill us in on exactly what gets transmitted by the USNO? I'd like
- >to take a crack at writing a new version.
-
- It crashes my 1000 running 2.04 as well. For fun, I dialled the number with
- JRComm just to see what I got. It turns out that what's returned is simply
- an ASCII string giving what I believe is the UTC (Universal time code), which
- seems to be easily parseable by mere humans. I'll set my watch to it, then set
- my computer's clock manually :-)
-
- >--
- >Brian Heil | A3000T Tom | Dietary Department
- >brian_heil@uiowa.edu | // Servo | The University of Iowa
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- ^^^^^^
- Crooooooooow!
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