[time-nuts] How good is my T-bolt...??

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Mon Dec 22 04:12:24 UTC 2008


> What if all three are different from each other?

Then you have a problem to debug.

> Or, if two agree, how do you know that the two are not both wrong?
> If you have 30 clocks and 20 say one time while 10 say another time,
> do you go with the majority?

> Is there not a small probability that the 10 are correct? 

Sure.  A lot of this depends upon whether you are talking about an initial 
setup/install or a set of clocks that have been running correctly for a while.

If you have 3 clocks of the same brand that have been running OK for a while 
and now 1 disagrees, the most likely problem is that it broke.

If you have 10 clocks of brand A and 20 clocks of brand B and the two sets 
agree within the set but disagree with the other set, then you probably have 
a design error and the number of clocks in each set doesn't tell you much 
about which one is likely to be right.

If your 3 or 30 clocks all agree with eachother, there is a chance that they 
are all wrong due to a design error or some problem common to all of them.




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