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

[Clint Jay]

I believe radio and television broadcasting makes use of accurate time in
studio and the wider transmission network.

I've worked in quite a few data centres where there's been a local NTP
server that was synced to GPS or, prior to the availability of GPS, the
"local" broadcast time signal.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2022, 09:29 Dr. David Kirkby via time-nuts, <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

> 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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