"Lee Sailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> First, thanks to everybody for replying. However, my original question
> was not as clear as it could have been. Let me continue...
>
> My company has 6 GPS time sources at various worldwide locations. They
> are stratum 1.
>
> Every once in awhile, one or the other of them has a harddware problem.
> As a result, that one will drift a little. That is, its offset will
> be 1, 2, or more seconds different from the other five. When we detect
> this, we replce the hardware as a matter of course.
>
> Now, it seems to me that a stratum 2 server will never have this
> problem. It gets time from several places, and uses the various
> algorithms to try to make sense. The stratum 1 gets time from a bunch
> of satellites, and then if it screws up the calculation or has some
> sort of hardware glitch, then it is screwed.
>
> Therefore, I conclude:
>
> 1. If everything is working, stratum 1 is better than stratum 2.
> 2. If the stratum 1 hardware is suffering a slow degradation
> breakdown, then the stratum 2 will be better.
>
> Whaddya think 8-)
I think you are using the word "better" without any clear notion of
better for what purpose. A server that's either dead or or way off may be
far more useful than a server that's slightly off -- if you're using
multiple sources. (And you should be.)
DS
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