[time-nuts] What everyday uses are there for accurate clocks?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

I mentioned to someone the other day that I owned an HP GPS time and
frequency standard. He asked me a simple question, but one I didn’t know
the answer to.


Apart from GPS, what in the daily lives of the general public need the sort
of accuracy one can get from time-nut grade clocks? I believe some
financial transactions is one application, and the cellular phone system
another. Are there others?

I found a few links

“The importance of time measurement”

https://www.nsai.ie/national-metrology/calibration-services/time-and-frequency-calibration/the-importance-of-time-measurement/


“The importance of measuring time”

https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/alumni/communications/alumni-news/2021/0108-the-importance-of-measuring-time

but have not seen any reference to anything much on the topic.
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