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DCF77TIME
Section: User Commands (1)
Index NAME
dcf77time - reads DCF77 radio clock information
SYNOPSIS
dcf77time[
-sseconds ]
device DESCRIPTION
dcf77timereads from a
DCF77-Module ('Atom Clock')via a serial port the raw time transmitted at 77.5 Khz from a antenna located at Mainflingen near Frankfurt/Main (Germany). The
DCF77-Module is sold by Conrad-Electronic in Germany (DCF-Modul "WT 100 seriell" -Order-Nr. 64 19 60-12). It is not that accurate and doesn't providedate information, but it's very cheap (18 DM).
dcf77timeshows the received information on the screen and sets thesystem timeaccording to this information.
OPTIONS
- -s seconds
- since the data read from the DCF77-Module might be corrupted insome very rare cases (slow or heavy loaded machines)the time read from the module is comparedwith the system time. If these two values differ more than nseconds the system time won't be set. A vallue of 0 seconds dissablesthis feature. (default: 5 seconds)
- device
- The serial device to which the Module is connected.
SEE ALSO
date(1)
clock(8),
AUTHOR
Christian Brunner (chbAATTmuc.de)
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
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