[ntp:questions] Re: Mother Of All Clocks

Mxsmanic mxsmanic at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 27 23:26:06 UTC 2005


mayer at gis.net writes:

> SOX is nothing compared to your shareholders screaming for your blood
> because your transactions were a few milliseconds too late. The SWIFT
> network moves Trillions of dollars through its network, yes TRILLIONS,
> every day. A slight error in time has enormous repercussions.

A good rule of thumb is that there is no such thing as timekeeping that
is _too_ accurate.  The more accurately you know the time, the more
things you can do that you might never have thought of before.

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