Anyone have an idea how one might output their PC clock information
though the serial (or USB) port?
My PC clock is NIST-synchronized and it would be nice to have a wall
clock with that accuracy.
...Jim Thompson
I'm sure I could write you a program to do something like that pretty
quickly. The question is, what clock is going to read data from a serial
port?
An even more important question is, isn't it going to drive you nuts
knowing that any clock you drive from the serial port is going to be
milliseconds (yes, milliseconds, and probably many of them!) off target?
Just think about it. You'll end up sitting in your rocking chair, staring
at the clock, thinking, "Damn, that last tick should have happened
earlier... damn, that one too... damn, that one too... damn, that one
too..."
In the morning, your wife will find that you've spontaneously combusted,
and all that's left is your slippers, part of your robe, and what many
people will come to believe was simply an urban legend all along.
"Jim Thompson? Hell, son, he's like Bob Widlar. He never really existed,
it's just a bunch of stories that got handed down through generations of
engineers."
Is that what you really want, Jim? Even your kids would begin to believe
the legend after a while. One day, your daughter would recount the story of
how you died: "Well, dad had bought this JATO rocket at the swap meet, and
he welded it to his old Impala one day... You can still see the hole in the
side of South Mountain where he augered in."
Trust me. What you want is a Westclox Big Ben. They're simple. They're
cheap. They're probably not made any more. But I'm sure you can find one on
Ebay. They need to be reset every week. But who cares? You'll never look at
one of them and say, "Damn, that last tick should have happened earlier..."
-- Mike --