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Smearing is very convenient if you use it because time stays "normal". But if you need to precisely correlate with outside sources, what other option do you hav
by tedunangst 7y ago
Smearing is very convenient if you use it because time stays "normal". But if you need to precisely correlate with outside sources, what other option do you have?
- wmf 7y agoSo when do you need subsecond-acccurate correlation of timestamps with outside sources?
- brandmeyer 7y agoMy ground control systems are sitting in a hosted datacenter with an entirely-unlike-UTC timebase. My satellite is synchronized to TAI via GPS time. I coordinate with a third party who manages the ground-based radio to coordinate contacts with my satellite system. If something goes wrong, it would be nice to compare the logs from the three systems after a contact to see which node thought what was going on. The fact that one or two of those systems gets its time from a not-UTC source makes this problem harder than it needs to be.