1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2 3<html> 4 5 <head> 6 <title>Forum Graphic GPS Dating station</title> 7 <link href="../scripts/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> 8 </head> 9 10 <body> 11 <h3>Forum Graphic GPS Dating station</h3> 12 <hr> 13 <h4>Synopsis</h4> 14 <p>Address: 127.127.37.<i>u</i><br> 15 Reference ID: <tt>GPS</tt><br> 16 Driver ID: <tt>GPS</tt><br> 17 Parallel Port: <tt>/dev/fgclock<i>u</i></tt></p> 18 <h4>Description</h4> 19 <p>This driver supports the Forum Graphic GPS Dating station sold by <a href="http://www.emr.fr/gpsclock.html">EMR company</a>.</p> 20 <p>Unfortunately sometime FG GPS start continues reporting of the same date. The only way to fix this problem is GPS power cycling and ntpd restart after GPS power-up.</p> 21 <p>After Jan,10 2000 my FG GPS unit start send a wrong answer after 10:00am till 11:00am. It repeat hour value in result string twice. I wroite a small code to avoid such problem. Unfortunately I have no second FG GPS unit to evaluate this problem. Please let me know if your GPS has no problems after Y2K.</p> 22 <p></p> 23 <h4>Monitor Data</h4> 24 <p>Each timecode is written to the <tt>clockstats</tt> file in the format <tt>YYYY YD HH MI SS</tt>.</p> 25 <h4>Fudge Factors</h4> 26 <dl> 27 <dt><tt>time1 <i>time</i></tt> 28 <dd>Specifies the time offset calibration factor, in seconds and fraction, with default 0.0. 29 <dt><tt>time2 <i>time</i></tt> 30 <dd>Not used by this driver. 31 <dt><tt>stratum <i>number</i></tt> 32 <dd>Specifies the driver stratum, in decimal from 0 to 15, with default 0. 33 <dt><tt>refid <i>string</i></tt> 34 <dd>Specifies the driver reference identifier, an ASCII string from one to four characters, with default <tt>FG</tt>. 35 <dt><tt>flag1 0 | 1</tt> 36 <dd>Not used by this driver. 37 <dt><tt>flag2 0 | 1</tt> 38 <dd>Not used by this driver. 39 <dt><tt>flag3 0 | 1</tt> 40 <dd>Not used by this driver. 41 <dt><tt>flag4 0 | 1</tt> 42 <dd>Not used by this driver. 43 </dl> 44 <hr> 45 <address>Dmitry Smirnov (das@amt.ru)</address> 46 <hr> 47 <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="../scripts/footer.txt"></script> 48 </body> 49 50</html>