mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) (05/22/91)
There are phone numbers you can dial to get the accurate time of day by modem. Instead of trying to receive CHU or WWVB, why not simply auto- dial one of them once per day? Specifics were in PC Techniques recently. Oddly, they use 300 baud, because it's truly asynchronous (one character at a time) whereas 1200 and 2400 baud involve processing delays that are somewhat hard to control. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Michael A. Covington | Artificial Intelligence Programs The University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 U.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------
whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Alan Whinery) (05/23/91)
In article <1991May22.024230.23977@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes: >There are phone numbers you can dial to get the accurate time of day >by modem. Instead of trying to receive CHU or WWVB, why not simply auto- >dial one of them once per day? > >Specifics were in PC Techniques recently. > There are even utilities to do it for you. The program will dial the US Naval Observatory, get the time, reset your system clock. I know that such a thing is available for Amiga (with which I have used it, and IBM. Alan -- ========================================================================= | D. Alan Whinery| The Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii | | Technical Genius| Internet: whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu | | Potential Writer| 71350.3005@compuserve.com