[time-nuts] List of time synchronization hardware and software
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Jan 17 13:01:21 EST 2006
In message <002b01c61b37$17377720$0500a8c0 at darius.domain.actdsltmp>, "Bill Hawkins" writes:
>Not to mention the equipment that synchronizes the power grid
>to UTC, seamlessly integrating leap seconds.
So far the existence of such equipment in contemporary power
grids is not really proven, is it ?
I know they try to hold the frequency and that they use UTC in
various forms for that, but not phase is not linked to UTC in
the sense that a synchronous clock would "loose" the leapsecond
at some point in the future.
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