[time-nuts] Loran - any good for timekeeping?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20060421.133311.35013386.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:

>Can't you recover the time by tracking multiple chains and using the
>relationship between them to come up with at least small number of
>possible seconds?  Hasn't the US started broadcasting data that can be
>used to know which second you are at?

This is called "Time Of Coincidence" and it works generally OK.

In Europe where the chains have 4 digit GRIs it works much better
because most of the chains were chosen as prime numbers so they
only coincide very seldomly.

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