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Re: [time-nuts] Holdover, RTC for Pi as NTP GPS source

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Hal Murray
Thu, Nov 2, 2017 5:12 AM

Forget about accurate time from the RTC's registers.  The slowness and
variably in I2C is quite poor and most of them don't even have sub-second
resolution when read or written.

If your RTC has a PPS output, you can read the registers to get the coarse
time, then wait for the PPS to tick to get the low order bits.

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tpiepho@gmail.com said: > Forget about accurate time from the RTC's registers. The slowness and > variably in I2C is quite poor and most of them don't even have sub-second > resolution when read or written. If your RTC has a PPS output, you can read the registers to get the coarse time, then wait for the PPS to tick to get the low order bits. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.