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golyadkin t1_iwz7vuo wrote

Reply to comment by i_have_chosen_a_name in The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks by 1r0ut3

It actually is also a time system. The precision time signals from GPS are used in situations where it's important to have standardized time across geographically dispersed equipment. It's used in telecommunications, power distribution, financial networks, seismic monitoring and a lot of industrial processes ad the default.

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ric2b t1_ix33yhz wrote

>used in situations where it's important to have standardized time across geographically dispersed equipment.

NTP also works fine.

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