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Re: Timekeeping and sight time records
From: Craig Scott
Date: 2005 Mar 16, 21:59 -0500
From: Craig Scott
Date: 2005 Mar 16, 21:59 -0500
Thank you. In my previous message I referred to software which does exactly that, accommodates the delays, but I'll restate: it is the luck of the draw; you may hit 4 or 5 times with only a ms delay, but then the next might be 2 s. If you set it to synchronize every minute (a waste of time ha,ha) you will get a reset practically every minute due to these variances as well as poor time keeping with your average computer clock. Old proverb: A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two is never quite sure... Craig -----Original Message----- From: Navigation Mailing List [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of Jared Sherman Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 13:31 To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM Subject: Re: [NAV-L] Timekeeping and sight time records Craig, you might want to look for a freeware app called TimeRC3 (.exe or .zip) which not only accomodates the propogation delays, but displays the delay times it finds on the main screen. Very slick and stable little app, and if you sync three or four times in a row and it shows only millisec delays each time...you can be pretty sure the clock is set better than you'll ever need to know. You can't "click" a button with the human hand and get that precision, much less read and note clock time that well.