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diff --git a/sysutils/pcfclock/pkg-descr b/sysutils/pcfclock/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index bffd56016879..000000000000 --- a/sysutils/pcfclock/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -This port provides the pcfdate utility which reads the time of day from a -pcfclock device, writes it to stdout or, optionally, sets the system time. - -You can benefit from pcfdate in case that - - - your geographic location is in Central Europe within a radius of roughly - 1500 km from the DCF77 transmitter near Frankfurt/Main, Germany, - - - you have the Conrad parallel port radio clock attached to your machine, - - - you have the pcfclock device driver enabled in your kernel configuration. - -The primary use of pcfdate is to initialize the system time on boot. In its -normal operation the Conrad clock synchronizes with the transmitter once a -day, and the time of day displayed refers to its internal quartz clock which, -however, suffers from a considerable drift. The resulting accumulated error -can reach about 0.6 sec after 24 hours. Combined with the clockspeed port -this can still be considered a useful initialization: sntpclock can later be -used to gradually adjust the system time with the global network time very -effectively within a few minutes. - -WWW: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~voegelas/pcf.html |