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Subject: [M]: NTP (was:: LX200-Computer Control)
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Tue Dec 02 01:43:39 1997

At 10:34 PM -0800 12/1/97, Marc wrote:
>Thanks Randy. I will download it and try it...I do wonder though how
>accurate it can be since the internet's speed itself depends on many
>variables...but I suppose it will be accurate enough for our purposes :)
>...enormous annoying quote elided :-(

I use NTP all the time. It just runs in the background and syncs up my
Mac's clock once a day. I never worry about wrong time anymore :-)

NTP claims to be accurate to 1 second. I'm not entirely sure how it
accomplishes this feat given the vagaries of the Net, but it doesn't sound
all that hard. Anyway it is far better than needed for your LX200.

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