On 2012-11-18, Ralph Aichinger <[email protected]> wrote: > As the Raspberry Pi I am currently using as a NTP box has > an audio output available, I am wondering if this otherwise > unused output (on a dedicated NTP box) could be used to > generate BBC style pips or other audible time signals? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal > > As I am probably not the first one to have that idea: > Is there software for Linux that does this? Playing > a sound file is easy. Playing it in sync with ntpd > is a lot harder.
ntpd is for syncing your computer clock to UTC. Since your computer clock is now runnning at UTC, all you need is to have a program that reads your computer time and at the seconds rollover issue a sound. > > /ralph _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
