[ntp:questions] Using a "composite clock" time source?

Hal Murray hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net
Tue Nov 6 04:41:21 UTC 2007


>I asked him what I should google up and he said "composite clock." Is
>there some way to hook up a "composite clock" to the serial port on my
>server? It appears that a composite clock is three wires: tip, ring
>and ground? Any help on if it's possible to use this would be great.

I'm far from a real phone company wizard, but tip and ring are
phone company terms.  If you want to connect them to your system
you need to go through a modem or equivalent for DS3/DS1/DS0.

Basically, that level of the phone company is concerned about
frequency rather than time.  If I understand things correctly
(which may be bogus), you get frequency without any way to connect
it back to a time-stamp.  (which is fine if you are a phone company)

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