Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!dayton.saic.com!fac2
From: fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,eunet.misc
Subject: Re: Program to set clock to NBS time
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.104442.1417@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 31 Dec 90 14:44:42 GMT
References: <38@teqsoft.UUCP> <4042@dah.sub.org>
Followup-To: eunet.misc
Lines: 40

In article <4042@dah.sub.org>, ed@dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten) writes:
> 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?

     48253 362 214840 UTC
       |    |    |
       |    |    + Current GMT time
       |    |
       |    + Day of the year number (28 DEC)
       |
       + Number of days past 17 Nov 1858 (a time keeping standard but I can't
		remember why right now)

Earle
_____________________________________________________________________________
             ____ ____    ___
Earle Ake   /___ /___/ / /     Science Applications International Corporation
           ____//   / / /__                 Dayton, Ohio
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Internet: fac2@dayton.saic.com             uucp: dayvb!fac2