Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:30114 comp.unix.sysv386:6678 comp.protocols.time.ntp:475 Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386,eunet.misc,comp.protocols.time.ntp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Subject: Re: Radio clock time for Unix In-Reply-To: jpm@logixwi.uucp's message of 5 Apr 91 12:44:06 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. References: <1991Apr05.124406.22544@logixwi.uucp> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 19:54:46 GMT In article <1991Apr05.124406.22544@logixwi.uucp> jpm@logixwi.uucp (Jan-Piet Mens @ Logix GmbH, Wiesbaden) writes: Does anybody know how to access the radio time sent out by the DCF77 transmitter near Frankfurt/M ? Has anyone ever done it in Unix ? In the German CHIP magazine (March '91) there is an article explaining how to do it for MsDOS, but we would like something similar for an SCO UNIX 3.2.2 box, if possible on a serial line. -- Jan-Piet Mens, Logix GmbH jpm@logixwi.UUCP Moritzstr. 50, D-6200 Wiesbaden ...!uunet!mcsun!unido!logixwi!jpm from louie.udel.edu:/pub/ntp/clock.txt: ntps1-0.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (131.188.1.10 - subject to change USE DNS) Location: University Erlangen-Nuernberg, D-W8520 Erlangen, FRG Synchronization: NTP primary (DCF77 clock), Sun/Unix Service area: Germany/Europe Access policy: open access Contact: Frank Kardel, Rainer Pruy (time@informatik.uni-erlangen.de) Model LF-DC MSF/DCF77 Synchronized Clock (incl. antenna) ($2,350) True Time Division, Kinemetrics 3243 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 (707) 528-1230 This is a LF receiver and decoder for the MSF station (Rugby, UK) and DCF77 station (Mainflingen, Germany). True Time decoder formats are supported in the Fuzzball operating system. Timecode transmitters, frequencies and geographic coordinates Call Location Frequencies Coordinates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DCF77 Mainflingen, DE 77.5 kHz 50:01N 9:00E -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216