RE: With the upcoming time change....

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Jeff Bull wrote:

> ... what would be even more useful ...
>
> I have a relatively inexpensive clock at home that checks a specific radio
> frequency periodically, from where it can receive the time accurately from
> an atomic clock; it keeps itself adjusted perfectly all year,
> daylight-saving changes too.  Now a similar device could be installed in a
> computer I'm sure, or perhaps even better, attached to a network for all
> servers and clients to synchronise their internal clocks to.  I would find
> it difficult to believe that such a gadget would not sell, or perhaps it has
> already been invented, but the poor inventor gave the marketing contract to
> the same company responsible for the iSeries :-)

There are drivers for exactly these devices which allow you to connect the
clock to your computer via a serial port.  Then you use ntp to keep all
your machines synced perfectly.

James Rich