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		idiotsecant 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut Lots of things do. Shoot, even plain old TDM needs timing precision on the order of picoseconds to nanoseconds.

NetMageSCW 20 days ago [–]

But does that require accurate UTC?

ted_dunning 19 days ago | | [–]

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.

idiotsecant 17 days ago | | [–]

Yes, in some implementations.

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