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ezconnect on Oct 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

GPS based clock is better no need for internet connection. Seiko and other company has been doing this for years.

marshray on Oct 22, 2020 | [–]

NTP is typically backed by GPS.

If you have a datacenter full of computers, obviously you don't want to run a separate GPS antenna for every system. NTP allows systems to synchronize to GPS over a network.

Scoundreller on Oct 22, 2020 | [–]

Need a clear sky connection though.

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