>Why do we need really accurate clocks? Time or frequency? phk@phk.freebsd.dk said: > "Because accurate clocks is the central technology that makes GPS, mobile > phones and the internet work." What part of the internet depends upon accurate clocks? Ethernet, for example, requires roughly similar frequencies but doesn't care at all about time. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam.

In message <20120328113122.5C868800037@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Mu rray writes: >> "Because accurate clocks is the central technology that makes GPS, mobile >> phones and the internet work." > >What part of the internet depends upon accurate clocks? SONET at the bottom and eBay endings at the top and a lot of stuff in the middle. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.