[email protected] said:
>       I would like to amend the question: does anybody run a NTP server which
> does not depend on GPS?

There are lots of stratum 2 servers in the pool.  If you have a good network 
connection and pick your primary servers carefully you can be within 1 ms 
most of the time.  (If you have lots of buffer bloat you can be way off.)

>       For example, the Rb oscillators are not prohibitedly expensive, so it
> should be possible to have a battery-backed atomic oscillator together with
> GPS time source, and - in paranoid mode - synchronize the time from GPS only
> once, and then use the local oscillator, possibly with triggering an alarm
> when the GPS time and the oscillator-based time diverges too much. 

I don't remember any stories of any setups like that.  A PPS signal needs 
some way to number the seconds.  It would be easy to setup if you had a GPS 
or network connection to calibrate the offset.  Just divide by whatever to 
get a PPS with an arbitrary offset and then tune the fudge factor to get the 
right answer, that is make it agree with a reference.


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