>----- Original Message -----
>From: Richard Stearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Robin Gilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: 29 March 1999 01:19
>Subject: Re: Time bug
>
>
>> Robin
>>
>> Quick question while I look further into mktime. Why code your own
daemon?
>> NTP with a reference clock driver will do it all for you.
>
>How does this help get the time from an Oregon Scientific Rugby clock?
>NTP is a protocol for getting the time from another machine - not for
>reading data from the game (or other) port on a PC...
>
As I recall, the xntpd daemon for Unix supports many standard clock sources,
as well as ntp.
So, you can use the code from xntpd, and modify it to suit your clock.
Cheers,
Colin.
