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1 total messages Started by Mills Wed, 28 Feb 1990 04:20

Author: Mills
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 04:20

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Folks,

I thought you might like to know that tonight a fuzzball at Norwegian
Telecommunications Administration began radiating atomic NTP time. Paal
Spilling and crew have lashed a cesium clock to the thing and it is now
happily chiming the atomic hour. Immediately the crew of NTP chimers
sleepily polling the fuzzball, but importing time from the US, quickly
snapped to attention and are now chiming Eurotime. Strangely enough,
the Eurochimers are showing stable offsets relative to the Oslo fuzzy
of between 30 and 60 ms, so Paal may have some detective work finding
the assymetries.

The network paths between Norway and the US are presently in awful shape,
so the Oslo radiator may be the best timekeeper now in Europe. Note that,
while atomic ticks the seconds, the seconds numbering is still imported
to Norway from the US via NTP. Our pals with MSF receivers in England are
invited to join the fray and help keep the Oslo tick on the right second.
I am most interested to see (from the fuzzy logs) how reliable the seconds
numbering can be maintained via the rambunctious line to the US.

Dave

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