Re: U.S. Naval Observatory and AtomClock

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From: Jim Edwards-Hewitt
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 15:03

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bheil@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil) writes:
> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
> > I'm using a version of AtomClock written by Art Steinmetz andthe
> > docs for it are dated 5/30/89. The phone number the program dials
> > is 1-202-653-0351. In fact I just used it a couple weeks ago and
> > the phone number for the US Naval Observatory in DC still answers
> > at that number (1200 baud) and sends the signals that AtomClock
> > cues on to reset your Amiga's system clock. 
> 

> Can someone fill us in on exactly what gets transmitted by the USNO?  I'd
> like to take a crack at writing a new version.

It just sends the current time in ASCII, once a second.  You can just call
it up with a comm program and see the format it uses.

	-- Jim

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