[time-nuts] Time syncing question

[Didier Juges]

OK, I assumed the operation was initiated by the phone system, but I 
believe you mean that the time can be set by sending a command via the 
serial port (for instance, or via ethernet) from a computer or a serial 
terminal.

In that case, running a cron job on an NTP connected computer that would 
update the clock periodically would probably be the best way. That's a 
thing Linux does very well. How accurate and precise do you need the 
time stamp to be? I assume time resolution is probably one second, so 
you do not need more accuracy than that between updates. How much if the 
current RTC drifting?

Didier

Joseph Gray wrote:
> For various reasons, I can't change the software on the device. It would be 
> even more impossible to modify the hardware. The device's time is settable 
> at any time via either serial port or HTTP, as I mentioned earlier. 
> Considering what I am allowed to do with the device, I think an external 
> program to adjust the time is the best solution.
>