[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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