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Re:One second per second is harder than it sounds by easytiger on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @05:54AM (#8068106)
But worth noting it is only ±1 ms accuracy which is not useful in many applications.
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Re:One second per second is harder than it sounds by nick_riviera on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @06:29AM (#8068203)
Very true, but system-wide consistency across all participants is a different problem to external reference accuracy but it starts as a reasonable basis that you can reason about.
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