Comment by idiotsecant
2 months ago
Lots of things do. Shoot, even plain old TDM needs timing precision on the order of picoseconds to nanoseconds.
2 months ago
Lots of things do. Shoot, even plain old TDM needs timing precision on the order of picoseconds to nanoseconds.
But does that require accurate UTC?
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.
Yes, in some implementations.