[time-nuts] purpose of time of day display units
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Jan 22 04:04:31 EST 2017
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In message <537E808D-731C-42DE-90F3-BEC55363B7AC at sfr.fr>, Mike Cook writes:
>All that these units do is merely display the time of day and
>sometimes the date, typically by means of seven segment LED displays,
>of the time code inputted to them (typically IRIG-B, I'm guessing).
I can imagine two reasons:
A) Trying to explain a $1M set of racks keeping track of time, without
them actually showing the time is a lot harder.
B) Visual indication that your IRIG-B is fine.
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