[time-nuts] Time stamping

paul at greenrover.demon.co.uk paul at greenrover.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 2 22:29:55 UTC 2009


Tom Van Baak wrote:

> If you had a choice time stamp the instantaneous *phase* and skip
> *frequency* altogether. This solves all your problems. Not only do
> you get an unambiguous time stamp but you can also accurately
> compute frequency for averaging times that are 10 or a multiple
> of 10 seconds, now or anytime later from the log.
> 
> Second choice, if you have to log frequency only, include the
> averaging time from which the frequency was calculated.
> 
> Third choice, use the end of the averaging period and let the
> user infer the averaging time based on the previous entry in
> the log file.


Thank you Tom, two and three are simple, number one requires me to think 
a little.

Regards Paul
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