[LinuxPPS] Synchronizing a ZDA message with NTP using linuxPPS

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Mon Mar 22 15:22:28 CET 2010


On 2010-03-22 10:28, Divi.Oillo at ifremer.fr wrote:
> It seems that ntpserver works with our PPS signal ('o' instead of 'x')  

That is right.

> but sometimes the status of the remote server changes, is that normal?

Well, there is just one server that the ntpd can use to check which time
it really is.
Optimally ntpd would have at least 3 timestamp sources, I guess.
Ntpd will then choose the `best` and use that to add timestamps to the
local pps source.



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