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On 04-Feb-2002 at 23:51:19 Simon Waters wrote:
Neil Williams wrote: Clocks in the same strata can be "peers" to help maintain accurate time, but I don't think people do that much now.
We do. My understanding is that it helps improve the accuracy by determining the average from the 3 clocks. Sounds odd, but rather than being a lot out, the average is closer to being accurate, although one of the other clocks may be dead accurate (or nearly so). John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.