<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:32 PM, John Denker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsd@av8n.com" target="_blank">jsd@av8n.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">On 10/17/2014 05:17 PM, Tom Mitchell wrote:<br>
> I am with you<br>
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so far so good ....<br>
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> except for the "grab NIST beacon" part. This implies that<br>
</span>> the clock can be set and reset. ?<br>
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Resetting the local clock hardware is not necessary, not<br>
desirable, and not implied by anything that was said.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Implied only by the choice of a <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">DS-1307</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> part.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div>On an I2C device there is no Read/Write pin that can be cut</div><div>to force the device to be read only in the future. Only audited </div><div>software and software security covers that base. </div><div><br></div><div>I am a slightly cautious about this because I have had</div><div>to sift through system logs when time was changing</div><div>in a bad ways. In my case an international company</div><div>complained that the time of day on our system was moving by hours</div><div>once in a while. They told me that the network was isolated</div><div>I showed them that it was not... It turns out that a dual boot PC </div><div>which kept TOD in local time for WindowZ but should have</div><div>kept it as UTS for the *nix environment was the problem.</div><div>The data link was just a single wire to a room to a satellite</div><div>dish to another little room to a big building full of machines</div><div>that should have been firewalled from any production site.</div><div>Yes, NTP is a better tool than the old timed tool....</div><div>They wanted subsecond or better accuracy and precision </div><div>but hardware clock oscillators were not good enough so</div><div>they allowed a network tool...</div><div><br></div><div>BTW they were on an island and "they thought" all was local.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"> T o m M i t c h e l l</div>
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