Someone at my radio club uses some mode of operation where accurate time is required. He said the standard Windoze clock does not keep sufficiently accurate, so he has software which updates from an NTP server every 4 seconds or so. It's not exactly a denial of service (DOS) attack, but seems almost close to it in NTP terms to me. I can't really believe updating every few seconds is sensible myself, but he assures me it works very well. (I'm rather hoping it does not use a stratum 1 server!)
I'm sure someone will say if you want accurate time on a PC, to use some combination of GPS, rubidium or OCXO with a 1 pps pulse and a serial port on a FreeBSD or similar computer. But that's probably not practical if your software only works on Windoze. Any comments? Dave, G8WRB. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
