Almost Accurate Clock

[Henry Spencer]

> 5) The time emitted from the RS232 interface lags WWV and the displayed time by
> almost 1 second.  We can only assume that this owes to slow computation
> in the RS232 microprocessor (it's not network delay or time to put out
> the characters serially).

The manual we got with ours specifically mentions a one-second delay
between "real" time and the rs232 time output.  The wording is slightly
ambiguous, but a consistent one-second delay is the most plausible
interpretation.  They don't say *why* the delay is there -- Dennis's
conjecture sounds plausible -- but it is (now) documented.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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