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  2. Atomic clock - Wikipedia

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    Atomic clocks can also be isolated from environmental effects to a much higher degree. Atomic clocks have the benefit that atoms are universal, which means that the oscillation frequency is also universal. This is different from quartz and mechanical time measurement devices that do not have a universal frequency.

  3. Time and frequency transfer - Wikipedia

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    In a two-way time transfer system, the two peers will both transmit and receive each other's messages, thus performing two one-way time transfers to determine the difference between the remote clock and the local clock. [4]: 118 The sum of these time differences is the round-trip delay between the two nodes. It is often assumed that this delay ...

  4. Clock synchronization - Wikipedia

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    Clock synchronization is a topic in computer science and engineering that aims to coordinate otherwise independent clocks. Even when initially set accurately, real clocks will differ after some amount of time due to clock drift, caused by clocks counting time at slightly different rates. There are several problems that occur as a result of ...

  5. Dick effect - Wikipedia

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    The Dick effect (hereinafter; "the effect") is an important limitation to frequency stability for modern atomic clocks such as atomic fountains and optical lattice clocks.It is an aliasing effect: High frequency noise in a required local oscillator (LO) is aliased (heterodyned) to near zero frequency by a periodic interrogation process that locks the frequency of the LO to that of the atoms.

  6. Holdover in synchronization applications - Wikipedia

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    Two independent clocks, once synchronized, will walk away from one another without limit. [1] To have them display the same time it would be necessary to re-synchronize them at regular intervals. The period between synchronizations is referred to as holdover and performance under holdover relies on the quality of the reference oscillator, the ...

  7. Clock drift - Wikipedia

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    Atomic clocks are very precise and have nearly no clock drift. Even the Earth's rotation rate has more drift and variation in drift than an atomic clock due to tidal acceleration and other effects. The principle behind the atomic clock has enabled scientists to re-define the SI unit second in terms of exactly 9 192 631 770 oscillations of the ...

  8. Time synchronization in North America - Wikipedia

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    Voice announcement with sync pips. Telephone connection, ear n/a Manual sync only. NIST Automated Computer Time Service (ACTS) [27] +1-303-494-4774 +1-808-335-4721; Windows computer with dialup modem. ntpd with NIST/USNO/PTB Modem Time Services driver; ClockWatch Pro for Windows [22] USNO Master Clock modem time [28] +1-202-762-1594

  9. Precision Time Protocol - Wikipedia

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    A domain [i] is an interacting set of clocks that synchronize to one another using PTP. Clocks are assigned to a domain by virtue of the contents of the Subdomain name (IEEE 1588-2002) or the domainNumber (IEEE 1588-2008) fields in PTP messages they receive or generate. Domains allow multiple clock distribution systems to share the same ...