[Thumbgps-devel] Project clarification

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Mar 13 21:18:56 EDT 2012


tz <thomas at mich.com>:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012
>  at 7:06 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> > One the one hand, ordinary GPS can yield time-service accuracy down
> > to a second with jitter on the close order of a hundred milliseconds.
> > This is not as good as NTP, which is generally believed accurate to 10us
> > (but may not be - that's part of what we want to check).
> 
> Maybe LAN NTP can go 10uS - microseconds, but pool.ntp.org is more
> like 10mS - milliseconds

Right, I typoed the prefix - 1 millisecond is the goal.
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