[time-nuts] Best reason
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Mar 28 11:31:22 UTC 2012
>Why do we need really accurate clocks?
Time or frequency?
phk at phk.freebsd.dk said:
> "Because accurate clocks is the central technology that makes GPS, mobile
> phones and the internet work."
What part of the internet depends upon accurate clocks?
Ethernet, for example, requires roughly similar frequencies but doesn't care
at all about time.
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