On Friday 16 March 2007 08:07, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:32 +0000, peter nikolic wrote:
On Friday 16 March 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate:
Any ideas or suggestions?
Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all connected to the net or a network with one machine connected to the internet setup a ntp server use that to check against at boo time ..
Ahh. I forgot to mention one important fact. These computers are in vehicles on the road. If they cannot figure it out on their own, it wont be figured out.
They do have GPS. However, I have not found an efficient way to share the GPS NMEA recored with nntp and our measurement software, which needs the records with little (read no) delay.
-- Roger Oberholtzer
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The GPS downloads the Zulu time with every transmission. The only delay would be decoding the actual transmission. You need some hardware and software that will parse the transmission and extract the time and date (if you need it) and this probably exists somewhere--even for DOS, I would guess. The software is trivial, and I could probably write it myself, but I'm not volunteering to do so. (I'm not a programmer.) I should think that an ordinary laptop would do all of this for you easily, but you could find a small engineering firm that does RF stuff and has, like all modern firms, a programmer, that would create for you whatever you need--a printed record, or whatever. --Doug, wa2say -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org