On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 17:45 UTC, Joe Landers <ntpquesti...@hireindex.com> wrote: > I have a couple of Arcron's, although I don't actively use them anymore. > If you let us know exactly what you'd like us to do, we'd be happy > to help. Alternatively, I can ship one to you or Harlan and you can verify > the fix yourself.
Thanks, Joe. You didn't mention which radio station your Arcron receivers were used with (or are compatible with). I have never used the 127.127.27.x refclock_arc.c driver myself, and I am informed primarily by the comments and patches in: http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402 Which time radio stations do your Arcron's support? MSF (UK), DCF (Germany), and/or WWVB (US)? I ask because my understanding of the patch in question is it is primarily of use to those tuning into one of the European stations, both of which transmit local time. WWVB transmits UTC. The patch changes the meaning of flag1=0 from "hardware provides localtime" (that is, the timezone of the computer must be set to match the timezone of the radio station) to "hardware provides transmitter time", that is, GMT/BST for MSF and CET for DCF. It is unclear to me if the patch can be usefully tested against WWVB where there is no difference between UTC and the station's transmitted time. Sadly, yours is the _only_ reply I have received to my request that users of the ARCRON_MSF aka refclock_arc.c aka 127.127.27.x reference clock driver contact me. The current driver maintainer, Nigel Roles, no longer uses the driver and has asked that a new maintainer be located. The reporter of the bug has not commented in a couple of years on the bug report, so I've cc'd him on this message. Again, anyone using the driver, please contact me. If there is no further response, there are two obvious paths forward: Yank the driver from the distribution, hoping that anyone who does use it will scream and thereby identify themselves, or alternatively that the code can be retired as unused. The other path would be to apply the patch provided by Nigel for bug 402, since the reporter (using DCF) commented that the patch solved the bug for him. The patch is backwards-incompatible, so I'm a bit uncomfortable doing that, but then so far for all I know NO ONE IS USING THE DRIVER. Thank you for the kind offer to send one of your units to someone who could test the change to the driver. At this point, I'm inclined to thankfully decline, though circumstances could change and I may yet ask later if you are still willing. I believe it would need to be tested by someone in DCF or MSF reception range, and moreover, it is not clear that any effort should be invested improving the driver, since it is apparently used by few. Cheers, Dave Hart _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
