[Gllug] MSF radio clocks for Linux

Caroline Ford caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 30 18:40:04 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:31 +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> We use a small Rugby Radio Clock from Galleon systems which works well.
> 
> You used to be able to get them from maplin,  but I think Galleon supply
> them direct.
> 
> They are battery operated (AAA) - which last for ages.
> 
> They connect to an RS232 port and provide accurate time in GMT or BST as
> appropriate.
> 
> 
> When I bought ours I had to knock up my own 'C' code to talk to the thing
> -  its  'standard userspace' code which runs on Unix,   so it should work
> fine with linux.
> 
> 
> Happy to send the C code for you to look at !

I wonder if there is an open source project to cover these things -
maybe you could start something!

Caroline

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