NTP

[E.S. Rosenberg]

One possible explanation may be that due to the very hard time cellphones
have to get and maintain GPS locks (which is the reason we have
technologies like AGPS) makes it impractical....


2014-05-08 14:43 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>:

> I posted a question in
> http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/68996/using-android-gps-as-ntp-refclock
>
>
> On 8 May 2014 10:56, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 5/8/2014 10:49 AM, Amos Shapira wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah I'm with you about taking advantage of the phone's GPS signal to
>>> get a good clock, and I thought that this is what this time-server thing
>>> does. What does it do if not that?
>>>
>>
>> The one I saw was just an Android port of the standard NTP server, which
>> syncs to other NTP servers.
>>
>>
>>> It's weird that nothing does it yet. Any takers?
>>>
>>>
>> My opinion too.
>>
>> I'd settle for an RS232 serial emulation over USB of the old GPSs. :-)
>>
>>
>> Geoff.
>>
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>> Jerusalem Israel.
>>
>>
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