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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: Obtaining time info from Naval Observatory
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.205634.2201@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:56:34 GMT
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In article <1991Jan11.040746.7981@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
>In article <1991Jan09.003434.5379@esleng.uucp> dag@esleng.uucp (David A. Gilmour) writes:
>>I have seen references to a program which can automatically obtain
>>the time from the Naval Observatory and update the system clock.
>>
>
>Warren Tucker's nbstime code is pretty specific to Xenix on a PC
>clone. Here's what I hacked together using that as a starting point.

I got this to work on my PC.

However, how accurate is the time you get? That is, is there any
way to tell what the propagation delay is, and also, exactly when in the
string of characters I receive is the given time supposed to correspond to?

Doug McDonald