[time-nuts] NIST time services

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAKyJ6kajBO=yvKG44s_sdO5OWRUZeM4TzX8aTvciRKmgcN8ftQ at mail.gmail.com>
, Paul writes:
>On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>wrote:

>> And it is generally useless, because people don't calibrate it.
>
>How do you calibrate root distance assuming that it's "one-half the
>roundtrip root delay plus the root dispersion plus minor error
>contributions not considered here"?

You key in the number for the light-speed delay from whatever
radio-transmitter you're listening to.

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