Subj : Remote - Local Time synchro
To   : Renato Zambon
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Wed Jul 31 2002 08:15 pm

Hello Renato,

    On Tuesday July 30 2002 at 20:01,
    Renato Zambon [4:801/161] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  Remote - Local Time synchro

 GM>> I was on Inet using Win3.11 via the modem (read:
 GM>> SLOOOOW...), but that was many years ago...   8-)
 RZ> I started using internet at 1200bps, shell account at
 RZ> university (text mode, a vt-100 terminal getting unix prompt
 RZ> for remote use)  :-o

You make it sound like you're "older than dirt"...  B-))

[snip]

 GM>> Not being familiar with any time servers.....  Are they
 GM>> graphical, text, or audio signal format?  When you are on
 GM>> the
 RZ> I don't know, only used the "shell" softwares that connect
 RZ> to these servers and get data in a mysterious way  :-)

As long as you get the data, does the "how" have to be
de-mystified?   ;-}

 GM>> How (software wise) are you tossing your mail on the
 GM>> Internet? I'm sure that a program such as IRex, would
 GM>> provide you with log
 RZ> TransX (for email/ftp links) and BinkD (binkp links). But I
 RZ> don't rely on their times, if some source is to be used,
 RZ> needs to be one of these "atomic clocks" servers. As I've
 RZ> seen, my own PC advance or retard from them some seconds per
 RZ> week.

I know full well about time systems advancing or retarding.  I
have three systems and the time differences between them can be
up to five minutes....  If I can get one synced with my host, I
should be able to set the other two through the network....

I don't think I could ever attain the accuracy of an atomic clock
on any of my PCs......

           Cheers ... Gerald

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