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by jlgaddis 1778 days ago
Probably because an ESP8266 isn't anywhere close enough to "real-time" to be of any benefit.

Why bother getting a nanosecond-level accurate time signal if you're going to feed it to an ESP8266 to distribute over Wi-Fi (or, in other words, reducing your accuracy to ~10 milliseconds or so)?