Chris Kuethe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Ryan Malayter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think using some high-school-level statistics would be more >> reliable... compute the standard deviation of offsets, and anything >> outside of N standard deviations gets kicked out of the pool. Or >> something like that. You have to presume that the crowd is more >> knowledgable than the monitoring server about what true time is. > > For less than $100 you should be able to hang a gps off the back of a > monitoring server. Then it too will have a good estimate of what the > true time was.
Most servers in the pool (including the monitoring box, I assume) are hosted in data centers with little to no GPS signal reception inside the buildings. Ways of convincing providers to drill holes in their walls for routing antenna cables have been discussed here in the past -- none were very successful IIRC. ;-) Martin _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
