Policy question - drop low-precision clocks?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > So, the only way to get accurate time out of this box is to pass its 1PPS
> > output through an outboard conter chip. 
> 
> That doesn't make sense.  If you have PPS, why not feed it into the serial 
> port.

I don't know, man, I just work here.

The driver is polled, so it's not going to be shipping time at a fixed offset
from top of second. Reading the code, do you see any way we get precision of
less than a second out of it?
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>