[ntp:questions] Accuracy of NTP - Advice Needed

Terje Mathisen "terje.mathisen at tmsw.no" at ntp.org
Wed Dec 28 21:32:34 UTC 2011


Danny Mayer wrote:
> On 12/24/2011 8:10 PM, jimp at specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> The bottom line is that the only thing that is relevant is how easy it is
>> to get to a GPS antenna with an open view of the sky.
>>
>> Everything else is bloviation.
>
> GPS is not used for this kind of thing, they are too inaccurate, so it
> doesn't matter. They use atomic clocks.

Danny, they sync the atomic clocks using common-view GPS.

This is exactly the same procedure that is used to compare all the 
clocks that together define what UTC is.

Terje
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