Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Almost Accurate Clock Message-ID: <4389@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Sep-84 21:40:43 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4389 Posted: Sat Sep 29 21:40:43 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 21:40:43 EDT References: <1044@research.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 13 > 5) The time emitted from the RS232 interface lags WWV and the displayed time by > almost 1 second. We can only assume that this owes to slow computation > in the RS232 microprocessor (it's not network delay or time to put out > the characters serially). The manual we got with ours specifically mentions a one-second delay between "real" time and the rs232 time output. The wording is slightly ambiguous, but a consistent one-second delay is the most plausible interpretation. They don't say *why* the delay is there -- Dennis's conjecture sounds plausible -- but it is (now) documented. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry