Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
Harlan Stenn wrote: The SHM refclock now supports nanoseconds, as I recall. And I'd be happy to look at these issues for ntp4-5.0 too. How about a bug report that refers to a topic in the Dev web for discussion? Done. See: Request for a more versatile shared memory (SHM) refclock driver

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
Michael Tatarinov schrieb: 2013/8/20, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de: Thus programs like gpsd can now write the nanoseconds in addition to the microseconds. If there's an old version of ntpd running then it just evaluates the microseconds, but new versions (ntp-dev for now) check

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-23 Thread Harlan Stenn
Martin Burnicki writes: Harlan Stenn wrote: The SHM refclock now supports nanoseconds, as I recall. And I'd be happy to look at these issues for ntp4-5.0 too. How about a bug report that refers to a topic in the Dev web for discussion? Done. See: Request for a more versatile shared

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
Rob wrote: Aha, ok... that is a solution, but I think it is a good idea to draw a new SHM specification that adds a lot of functionality like described in the mailing list article, and make it the prime reference clock interface for ntpd. ntpd can then focus on the main task: the network

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange jumps in PPM

2013-08-23 Thread Charles Elliott
Several people on the mail list have suggested that the nmea clock driver estimate the accuracy of the time reading by the divergence of the indicated location from the GPS device's true location. Right now the nmea driver does not look at the lat/long readings. You can find an accurate estimate

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
David Taylor wrote: On 20/08/2013 13:25, Martin Burnicki wrote: [] There were 2 fields in the SHM segment which were previously unused and are now used to take the nanoseconds from the refclock and from the system time. Thus programs like gpsd can now write the nanoseconds in addition to the

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Tatarinov
2013/8/23, Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de: David Taylor wrote: On 20/08/2013 13:25, Martin Burnicki wrote: [] There were 2 fields in the SHM segment which were previously unused and are now used to take the nanoseconds from the refclock and from the system time. Thus programs

Re: [ntp:questions] manual change on clock time seems to inhibit ntp service.

2013-08-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
Sebastien WILLEMIJNS wrote: Hello, i installed meinberg release on windows 7 with default conf. at startup, time is well clocked but after 2 minutes i decided to change time (10 minutes later or 10 minutes less), poll and when values seems to be frozen after this change why time isn't now

Re: [ntp:questions] Strange jumps in PPM

2013-08-23 Thread unruh
On 2013-08-23, Charles Elliott elliott...@verizon.net wrote: Several people on the mail list have suggested that the nmea clock driver estimate the accuracy of the time reading by the divergence of the indicated location from the GPS device's true location. Right now the nmea driver does not

Re: [ntp:questions] manual change on clock time seems to inhibit ntp service.

2013-08-23 Thread Sebastien WILLEMIJNS
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013, at 15:27, Martin Burnicki wrote: Hello, This is a kind of test of run by beginners with NTP, but this doesn't work as you expected. yep you right but it is also a good test to check if time changes. Maybe this question can be on any F.A.Q ? :) @all, thanks for your

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-23 Thread Martin Burnicki
Michael Tatarinov wrote: Yes, SHM driver is commented out but look at refclock_shm.c. The shm refclock supports Windows and it's added over 15 year ago (according to the BitKeeper). ps. I don't know if it works? Indeed. I've just enabled the SHM refclock in the config.h file for Windows,

Re: [ntp:questions] Raspberry Pi error in PPM offset

2013-08-23 Thread james . peroulas
Answering both unruh and David Taylor here! I haven't changed the configuration of NTP on the Raspberry Pi so it is still using the default time servers: server 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst server 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst server 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst server 3.debian.pool.ntp.org

Re: [ntp:questions] Raspberry Pi error in PPM offset

2013-08-23 Thread David Woolley
On 23/08/13 16:28, james.perou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm suspecting that NTP has been told that the reference timer it is using has a frequency of X MHz when it actually has a frequency of X*(1+2.5e-6)MHz. Where would I look for such configuration information? I'm suspecting that it's in one

Re: [ntp:questions] Raspberry Pi error in PPM offset

2013-08-23 Thread unruh
On 2013-08-23, David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: On 23/08/13 16:28, james.perou...@gmail.com wrote: I'm suspecting that NTP has been told that the reference timer it is using has a frequency of X MHz when it actually has a frequency of X*(1+2.5e-6)MHz. Where would I look

Re: [ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

2013-08-23 Thread Rob
Martin Burnicki martin.burni...@meinberg.de wrote: Rob wrote: Aha, ok... that is a solution, but I think it is a good idea to draw a new SHM specification that adds a lot of functionality like described in the mailing list article, and make it the prime reference clock interface for ntpd.

Re: [ntp:questions] manual change on clock time seems to inhibit ntp service.

2013-08-23 Thread David Taylor
On 23/08/2013 14:27, Martin Burnicki wrote: [] To see if NTP keeps adjusting the system time continuously and correctly you could run ntpq -p repeatedly in a command line window on your Windows machine, and watch how the reported offset (which is in milliseconds) decreases until it reaches and