Re: [ntp:questions] garmin 18x and linux

2011-09-09 Thread Mike S
At 06:38 PM 9/9/2011, unruh wrote... The MT12+ also apparently has a delay of a few 10s of ns in sending out the pulse. Are these uncertainties? If yo udo not know about them, they are. If you know about them you can subtract out the systematic errors, but you cannot do that for the random er

Re: [ntp:questions] garmin 18x and linux

2011-09-09 Thread Chris Albertson
"...The organization of the measurements is very similar to the setup applied at BIPM and Besanqon in the experiment carried out in 1996 (Lewandowski et al., 1997). The Stanford SR-620 time-interval counter (Fig* 1) is started by the 1 pps pulse from the local UTC clock driven by the O

Re: [ntp:questions] garmin 18x and linux

2011-09-09 Thread unruh
On 2011-09-09, Chris Albertson wrote: >>> What we are talking about when we say "accuracy" is the amount of >>> uncertainty. >> >> No we mean how closely the gps absolute time agrees with the utc >> absolute time (modulo leap seconds). > > Accuracy is always expressed as an uncertainty. For exam

Re: [ntp:questions] garmin 18x and linux

2011-09-09 Thread Chris Albertson
>> What we are talking about when we say "accuracy" is the amount of >> uncertainty. > > No we mean how closely the gps absolute time agrees with the utc > absolute time (modulo leap seconds). Accuracy is always expressed as an uncertainty. For example I might say "the voltage is 6.32V plus or

Re: [ntp:questions] garmin 18x and linux

2011-09-09 Thread unruh
On 2011-09-07, Chris Albertson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Greg Hennessy wrote: > >> I'm not even sure the USNO provided time sync to GPS is at the 2nS >> level. > > This is not an accuracy issue. it is an intentional offset to account > for the earth's slowing rotation rate. here a

[ntp:questions] Should ntpd be run with highest priority (-N)?

2011-09-09 Thread Douglas Calvert
Hello,  I noticed the -N switch today. Should ntpd be run with -N on a dedicated time server? ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions