> for an upcoming experiment I am looking for precise external time > reference, preferrably an atomic clock that I can hook up to a > computer running a Unix variant.
How good a clock do you want/expect? If you are using a computer, you have a layer of jitter from things like interrupts and cache misses. PCI adds more jitter from things like DMA activity. How stable is your thermal environment? Have you experimented with ntpd and a simple GPS unit? That turns the problem from hardware to software. I'd expect you could get the system clock to within a few 10s of microseconds. That may take luck and work. Quirks will vary from OS to OS and from release to release, both of OS and ntpd, and maybe from motherboard to board. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
