1st August 2024
Richard Steedman.
‘How Computers tell the time’.
Richard is Hon Secretary of the BHI Wessex Branch and a strictly amateur horologist. He works as a consultant in the semiconductor industry and has a keen interest in electrical horology. His talk arose from a request by the Technical Editor of the HJ, Justin Koullopis, for an article about how NTP (the protocol that computers use to synchronise their clocks over the internet) works. Richard prepared the talk during Covid lockdown to get his thoughts straight and eventually produced a written article which was published in the January 2024 issue of HJ.
Richard’s talk will cover in detail the various messages that computers send to each other over the Internet to set their clocks as accurately as possible. He will conclude with some photos of his electrical horology collection, some of which use the NTP to keep accurate time.
Doors open at 19:30, Starting 20.00 hours.
The meeting will be held at The White Hart Barn in Godstone.
THE WHITE HART BARN (Godstone Village Hall)
GODSTONE
SURREY RH9 8DU
7.30pm for 8.00pm Start
