[time-nuts] Basic Stratum 1 question

[GandalfG8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 02/08/2007 16:33:26 GMT Daylight Time,  
jaredmorrisen at gmail.com writes:

I am having a debate with our CIO.  He wrote in a memo about  timing:

*Local hardware is to be considered Stratum 1, since it get time  from its
own CMOS.*


I told him that absurd and that it can't be  considered stratum 1.

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Hmmmmmmmm
So any dodgy PC clock is now Stratum 1 by his definition?

The  following is just one quick example from a google search and came  
from.......

http://www.endruntechnologies.com/stratum1.htm
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What is Stratum 1?

In the world of NTP, stratum levels define  the distance from the reference 
clock.  A reference clock is a stratum-0  device that is assumed to be accurate 
and has lttle or no delay associated with  it.  The reference clock 
synchronizes to the correct time (UTC) using long  wave radio signals, GPS 
transmissions, CDMA technology or other time signals  such as WWV, DCF77, etc.  Stratum-0 
servers cannot be used on the network,  instead, they are directly connected 
to computers which then operate as  stratum-1 servers.

A server that is directly linked to a stratum-0 device  is called a stratum-1 
server.  This includes all time servers with built-in  stratum-0 devices and 
those with direct links to stratum-0 devices such as over  an RS-232 
connection or via an IRIG-B time code.  The basic definition of a  stratum-1 time 
server is that it be directly linked (not over a network path) to  a reliable 
source of UTC time such as GPS, WWV, or CDMA transmissions.  A  stratum-1 time 
server acts as a primary network time standard.
 
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See what he makes of that :-)
 
regards
 
Nigel
GM8PZR