Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-02 Thread David Taylor
On 01/08/2014 22:33, Greg Hennessy wrote: I have a dell laptop running windows 7 with a trible accutime gold gps that runs my telescope. My timing requirements are rather modest, I'd like to be within 10 milliseconds of the correct time, but since my observatory isn't connected to the internet,

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-02 Thread David Taylor
On 02/08/2014 16:18, Greg Hennessy wrote: On 2014-08-02, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: I looked at your first graph, and did see spikes, but then wondered whether the units were seconds or milliseconds, as I saw no spikes more than 0.15 units, and the units on the

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-02 Thread Paul
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 4:28 AM, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: How is the Accutime device defined to NTP? I Refclock 29 (Palisade driver) is a serial driver using various TSIP versions -- which are binary -- rather than NMEA. It might be necessary to set the mode,

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-02 Thread Greg Hennessy
Refclock 29 (Palisade driver) is a serial driver using various TSIP versions -- which are binary -- rather than NMEA. It might be necessary to set the mode, certainly if you want to use Port B. I would in any case. It appears that there's still no PPS support so one would need to use

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-02 Thread Paul
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Greg Hennessy greg.henne...@cox.net wrote: Well, I chose the Trible Accutime just to have access to a PPS Your Accutime does provide a TTL PPS signal (by the way, PPS capable GPS receivers are quite inexpensive and common these days) but USB isn't the right way to

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-02 Thread Greg Hennessy
On 2014-08-02, David Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid wrote: Thanks for both points, Greg. I am unfamiliar with the type 29 driver so I can't help much further. There is a page here mentioning 1 millisecond accuracy with Windows. Even one millisecond is about a factor of 10

Re: [ntp:questions] bad time with a laptop on windows 7

2014-08-02 Thread Greg Hennessy
Well, I chose the Trible Accutime just to have access to a PPS Your Accutime does provide a TTL PPS signal (by the way, PPS capable GPS receivers are quite inexpensive and common these days) but USB isn't the right way to import the signal. Since the hardware has a USB connector, what is the