Re: [LEAPSECS] consumer-quality clocks

From: Demetrios <dnm_at_orion.usno.navy.mil>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:47:16 +0000 (UTC)

> I've been delving through product literature on clocks, and this is
> what I've found. It looks as if the most accurate clocks that can
> affordably be obtained and embedded into devices whose principal
> purpose is not precision timekeeping are able on their own to keep
> time accurate to about one second per year. Leap seconds currently
> happen about once per year. This means that a standalone device
> cannot reasonably claim to be keeping either UTC or TAI without
> some mechanism for resetting the time.
>
> Does anyone know of affordable clocks which keep time for a year to
> an accuracy of better than one second?
>
> --
> Steve Allen UCO/Lick Observatory Santa Cruz, CA 95064
> sla_at_ucolick.org Voice: +1 831 459 3046 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla
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