Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Once you have your clock running, leave it running 24x365.
Not that I'd be necessarily inclined to use gabs solution. I see what I suspect are perhaps similar situations all the time. Hundreds of boxes, {actually more than three thousand in one case} in a desert, (or arctic area) with a solar panels for the only primary power, sometimes spotty wireless comm with / between each other {mesh or cell groups, sometimes no backhaul}, ... The embedded systems have to do the best they can, with the resources they have, when they are available; ... and they run out of power often enough. -- E-Mail Sent to this address <blackl...@anitech-systems.com> will be added to the BlackLists. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions