Super Accurate clock for your PC

I use a radio clock, and no , not one that plays music from radio stations.

It receives a radio signal from somewhere in england, and uses that to determine the time.

The signal is generated off an atomic clock, but the display doesnt show units less then a second.
These clocks are available at Maplin, a shop near the Jervis center in Dublin.
I'm sure you can get them elsewhere also.

OK folks, just for fun-

I've discovered that the clock in Trinity is a Stratum 2 device, that means it is two Network hops away from a Stratum 0 device- It is not possible to get a more accurate time than level 0 as these are the standard reference time clocks. So the best we can ever hope to achieve is Stratum level 1. The NIST server is a Stratum level 1 device.
That doesn't mean that the Trinity clock is less accurate however- it really depends on the level 1 Startum devices it derives it's signal from and how many it's hooked up to.

So what kind of accuracy are we talking about here??
Stratum level 0 doesn't listen to other devices- so is by default 100% accurate
Stratum level 1 can achieve accuracy as good as 1ms (0.001 seconds)
Stratum level 2 can achieve accuracy of 10ms or 0.01 seconds

But it doesn't end there... any colleges hooked up to the Internet2 project will soon be able to get accuracy better than 1 microsecond (0.000001 seconds)

As for me, the accuracy of my scope relies heavily upon my own reaction time (I've to press the button when seting the autostar)
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It looks to me like you have too much time on your hands!

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Seanie.

I just downloaded Symmtime and compared its time to the time on the Rugby radio clock I have here and they are a perfect match, the second seems to change on both simultaneously, thats good enough for me.

And dpower, waaaay to much time,

Guys, what exactly is the point of GPS on your telescope? It doesn't align the mount for you so what does it give you? Accurate time and location setting? Errors in either of these will surely be dwarfed by alignment errors.

Thanks,
Simon