[KLUG Members] clock synch

[bill]

Ah, now that's funny and the contour link is a hoot.  And good reason to synch
with more than one time clock.

I had picked 128.174.5.58 as my timeserver because I thought it was close (I
couldn't find a single one in Michigan).  As far as I can tell, it is on the
same orbit as the rest of the world, which isn't necessarily the same orbit as
the one NASA is on.

bill

Jacob Creutzfeldt wrote:

> I've been following the thread on ntp and rdate and
> started
> experimenting with rdate and several time servers.
>
> The first one "ns.arc.nasa.gov", returned the time,but
> I noticed it was inconsistent with others I tried.
>
> Here is a short shell script that retrieved the times
> in sequence.  The Nasa site shows a time before the
> others even though it was run first.
>
> Maybe that's why the CONTOUR spacecraft is orbiting
> the Sun.
>
> http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/contour_update_020821.html
>
> #
> echo "ns.arc.nasa.gov" ; rdate -p ns.arc.nasa.gov
> echo "time-a.nist.gov" ; rdate -p time-a.nist.gov
> echo "time-b.nist.gov" ; rdate -p time-b.nist.gov
>
> # Results
> ns.arc.nasa.gov
> Sat Aug 24 00:02:35 GMT 2002
> time-a.nist.gov
> Sat Aug 24 00:01:22 GMT 2002
> time-b.nist.gov
> Sat Aug 24 00:01:22 GMT 2002
>
> Jacob
>
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