Re:Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
by Unklejoe on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:43AM
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You use a jittery GPS PPS signal to discipline a highly stable primary clock through a very "slow" filter. The GPS PPS might have an RMS period jitter of say 10-20 nanoseconds, but the drift will be 0.
Then, you can use that disciplined primary clock to provide actual time for timestamping, etc.
Then, you can use that disciplined primary clock to provide actual time for timestamping, etc.