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by hcfman 801 days ago
You could buy an rtc and put up with that kind of clock drift, or.... for the same money or less you could be a GPS and have none of that drift.
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(a bit more money for the GPS to be fair) not even mentioning the fact that you should have clear-ish access to the sky, the time taken for you to receive the time data, and the possibility of jamming. I could go on but the two methods have differing modes of operation and failure despite ultimately being capable of fulfilling the need for a reasonably synchronized clock