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Re[2]: Why atomic time



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Hello O List,

If  someone  could/would send me a zip file file of Atomic Clock (for
Win2K), contact me off-list.
thanks.



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 Jim Johnson                           mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Tuesday, April 09, 2002, 7:59:42 AM, you wrote:

BF> At 4:53 PM -0400 4/8/02, LaciG wrote:

>>I have noticed that some on this list update their cpu clock with an
>>atomic clock.
>>
>>Why?
>>
>>If you set to synchronize your machine with your data provider (such as
>>I have using BMI & TS2K) wouldn't that suffice?

BF> TS2000i re-labels the time stamp of each real-time tick as it is
BF> received. They are given the time stamp of the computer clock so you
BF> need to be sure your computer clock is synchronized with an atomic
BF> clock with a utility such as AtomTime. This, at least, makes the
BF> performance the same for real-time and historical tests on the same
BF> data. Obviously, this assures that time-stamps are in order so all
BF> ticks can be saved in the data base.

BF> Bob Fulks