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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: WWV vs. The Naval Observatory Clock -- Who's Right ?
Message-ID: <1990Dec29.032820.29392@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 29 Dec 90 03:28:20 GMT
References: <63354@petro.UUCP> <69@rel.mi.org>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <69@rel.mi.org> by bob@rel.mi.org (Bob Leffler):
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| In article <63354@petro.UUCP> root@petro.UUCP (Petty System God) writes:
| >the Naval Observatory was reporting time about 12 seconds behind WWV.
| 
| My first guess for the difference is the delay intransmitting the data via
| the different transports.  i.e.  How long does it for the data to transmit
| through the numberous switches, land lines, satelites, etc to reach your
| modem?  I'm sure that it is different than shortwave.
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12 seconds?!  A phone call with that delay wouldn't be considered usable by
most people.  I suspect the problem lies somewhere else.

++Brandon
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