Are you trying to set other clocks based on the time on your Linux box, or do you need a clock that chimes on the hour and possibly ticks off seconds that runs on Linux? If you want to set clocks, they would need to be compatible with ntp, unless you are trying to send the signal that atomic clocks read to get the time, in which case you would need a radio board. If your clocks can sync with ntp, then you can just run that on your Linux box, or even on your router, if it runs an ntp server, or you could just sync it with the ntp server pool or usno.navy.mil if I have that hostname correct. I believe NASA also has an ntp server that keeps accurate time. If you just need a chiming clock, it's easy enough to write a script, and if there's enough of a demand for it, I could probably put something together fairly quickly. I'm thinking of a script that will tell the time using a human voice when run plus a cron job that would run every hour and could be turned on or off with a command line option or an environment variable. Let me know if this is what you'd like, and I'll be happy to take on such a project. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
