[geeks] Watch prescision
Chris Byrne
chris at chrisbyrne.com
Wed Jan 22 11:30:37 CST 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of James
>
>
> BTW, the trainman's rulebook had a long discussion on what we
> would call
> NTP "stratum". Who you could get time from (which was based
> on who you
> were, ie: job title), how they would get time, how to
> ascertain that their
> clock has been adjusted recently, what to do if it hasn't
> been adjusted and
> who to go to for your next stratum, etc. It was like 5 pages and even
> discussed averaging a group of clocks if nobody had synced
> recently and no
> in-sync timesource was available.
>
If you are ever in a position to scan and OCR that section I'd be very
interested in it.
For some reason I have weird a fealing that information might be useful
for something.
Chris Byrne
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