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by awesome_dude 169 days ago
Isn't that because Google has its own atomic clocks, rather than NTP which is (generally) using publicly available atomic clocks?
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More that they use GPS to synchronize the clocks. Having your own atomic clock doesn’t really improve your accuracy except for within the single data center you have it deployed (although I’m sure there’s techniques for synchronizing with low bounds against nearby atomic clocks + GPS to get really tight bound so they don’t need one in every data center)