NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut

Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut by NetMageSCW on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:25PM (#46360484)

But does that require accurate UTC?

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Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut by ted_dunning on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:19AM (#46363468)

If you have a widely distributed system and you need tight synchronization, it can be much easier to regulate to an outside stable source than to try to make a stable consensus algorithm.

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Re:NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut by idiotsecant on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:29AM (#46384609)

Yes, in some implementations.

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