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I wonder how accurate a reset based on astronomical observations or GPS would be. Just checked out https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-re
by lopatin 2y ago
I wonder how accurate a reset based on astronomical observations or GPS would be.
Just checked out https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-realization/utcnist-time-scale-0/how-utcnist-works https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-re...
I didn't understand everything, but it looks like they have a fleet of atomic clocks for UTC and are resilient to one of the clocks failing. I guess it is possible that if all of those clocks go down, the world loses track of time. I wouldn't want to be responsible for that cluster :)
- pvg 2y agoI think it depends on what you mean by 'accurate'. Losing computer time doesn't lose the ability to measure time so you've lost a reference and synchronization. The reference you get back from where you got the original reference to begin with and then go from there.