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From: davis@groucho.ucar.edu (Glenn P. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: program to read NBS time
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 27 Apr 89 07:35:09 GMT
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chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
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>> Looking for a program that will dial up and read the time from National
>> Bureau Standard and then set the local computer clock.. 

The way NCAR does it, I believe, is with a WWV Radio. This is looks like a
spendy item.  I don't have details, but the NSFNet hubs seem to have them
in conjuction with their fuzzballs.

Jeff Forys (forys@boulder.colorado.edu) wrote a program called 'settime'
that allows one to Query the fuzzball to get the time.  It takes
transmission times into account and is 'pretty neat'.

This actually works with any machine with the network time server
configured in, we just query the fuzzball because it's hooked up to the
WWV clock.

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