[time-nuts] Time syncing question

David Andersen dga+ at cs.cmu.edu
Thu Aug 31 11:47:53 EDT 2006


On Aug 31, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Glenn wrote:

> Dave Andersen wrote:
>> 1)  They actually only need to be correct to within 10us,  
>> according to
>> the spec.
>
>
> I haven't read the spec, but I don't think it applies to the time
> _display_. I'd also hazard a guess that the cell phone application
> programmers
>  don't care too much about exactly what time it is. They certainly  
> don't
> care about "non-critical bugs." Apologies to anyone out there that
> actually writes cell phone apps that work reliably.

Doesn't apply to the display at all.  The synchronization is required  
for CDMA soft handoff between base stations.

   -Dave



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