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From: ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,eunet.misc,eucon.general
Subject: Re: Program to set clock to NBS time
Keywords: clock, time, set
Message-ID: <4042@dah.sub.org>
Date: 28 Dec 90 23:35:23 GMT
References: <38@teqsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: ed@dah.de.intel.com
Followup-To: eunet.misc
Organization: Public Access UNIX System for Landkreis/Stadt Dachau, Germany
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jmc@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?

I know there are radio receivers which do the same, but you need 
extra equipment.  nbs_time.c just requires a modem which we have 
anyway...

Thanks in advance,

Ed

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