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- Network Working Group Bill English SRI/ARC
- Request for Comments No. 34 26 February 1970
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- SOME BRIEF PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE ARC CLOCK
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- The ARC clock system provides a time reference that is written into the
- core memory of the XDS 940 Computer. There are two types of time
- information available--absolute and relative.
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- The absolute time is written into two adjacent words of core with the
- following format:
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- First word --
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- Bits 0 thru 7 contain the month code in straight binary with a
- range of 1 to 12
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- Bits 8 thru 15 contain the day code in straight binary with a
- range of 1 to 31
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- Bits 16 thru 23 contain the year code in straight binary with
- range of 0 to 99
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- Second word --
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- Bits 00 thru 7 contain the hour code written in straight binary
- with a range of 0 to 23
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- Bits 8 thru 15 contain the minute code written in straight binary
- with a range of 0 to 60
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- Bits 16 thru 23 contain the second code written in straight binary
- with range ofr 0 to 60
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- These 2 words are written once each second. It is anticipated that the
- accuracy of the initial setting will be on the order of 1 second, as
- referred to WWV, and that the oscillator drift rate will not account for
- an accumlated error of more than 1 second every 250 days. The
- oscillator and clock are provided with standby power in order to
- maintain the accuracy of the system. Because of variable delays in time
- required to obtain access to the 940 core memory, it is anticipated that
- the short-term accuracy will be on the order of 10 to 20 microseconds.
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- The relative time, which is written into one word of core memory, is
- simply the contents of a 24 bit binary accumulator. The rate at which
- the accumulator is updated can be chosen to be either once very 100
- micro seconds or once every millisecond. In either case the core
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- RFC 34 Prelimary Notes on the ARC Clock February 1970
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- location is written each time the accumulator is updated. As above the
- short-term accuracy will be about 10 to 20 microseconds and the long-
- term accuracy will be the equivalent of one second every 250 days.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by Katsunori Tanaka 1/98 ]
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