A few years ago, one of our interns was curious about system
time keeping features in computer systems. This intern was
also the proud owner of an inexpensive Radio-Controlled Clock.
The intern wondered why computer motherboards were not just
equipped with a chip like the ones in the RCC so that t
On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 17:59 +, Chris Olson via CentOS wrote:
> A few years ago, one of our interns was curious about system
> time keeping features in computer systems. This intern was
> also the proud owner of an inexpensive Radio-Controlled Clock.
> The intern wondered why computer motherboa
On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 17:59:16 + (UTC)
Chris Olson via CentOS wrote:
> why computer motherboards were not just
> equipped with a chip like the ones in the RCC so that their
> system time would always be correct.
Digital cinema servers (the gadgets that feed the movie to the projector and
sound
--On Sunday, March 08, 2020 6:59 PM + Chris Olson via CentOS
wrote:
All of our bedrooms have Radio-Controlled Clocks. At 5:30
this morning, half of the clocks displayed the correct time.
The other half of the clocks were incorrectly showing a time
one hour ahead.
Probably a result of pol
Once upon a time, Pete Biggs said:
> There's also a massive problem with
> signal strength in the UK - the (singular) time transmitter is in the
> middle of the country in Cumbria and in the south it's virtually
> impossible getting a signal any further than about 2 feet from a window
> - not a ho
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