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by simonh 3026 days ago
It wasn’t clock drift, it was an error in calculation leading to separate parts of the system, that were calibrated to the same common clock, to drift out of synchronization. Using a different clock, like GPS wouldn’t help with this.

But the rest of your point boils down to ’if you know your system has a flaw why not mitigate it’? But of course at design time they didn’t know it had this flaw.

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Good point - hindsight is 20/20...