-------- In message <[email protected]>, Mike Cook writes:
>All that these units do is merely display the time of day and >sometimes the date, typically by means of seven segment LED displays, >of the time code inputted to them (typically IRIG-B, I'm guessing). I can imagine two reasons: A) Trying to explain a $1M set of racks keeping track of time, without them actually showing the time is a lot harder. B) Visual indication that your IRIG-B is fine. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ 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.
