[time-nuts] GPSDO & Crystal Aging

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Apr 10 16:14:10 EDT 2014


In message <F11541BEBE334AE4881A450859222572 at pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:

>True, except that in most cases the long-term frequency drift rate
>is so tiny compared to all the short- and mid-term instability that
>it is not worth worrying about.

... unless you care about holdovers of multiple days or weeks.

Otherwise:  I fully agree.

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