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Topgamer7yesterday at 9:01 PM6 repliesview on HN

Out of curiosity, can anyone say the most impactful things they've needed incredibly accurate time for?


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pezezintoday at 12:16 AM

I work at a particle accelerator. We use White Rabbit (https://white-rabbit.web.cern.ch/) to synchronize some very sensitive devices, mostly the RF power systems and related data acquisition systems, down to nanosecond accuracy.

abeyertoday at 2:02 AM

Telling people at the bar that I have an atomic clock at home.

Sanzigyesterday at 9:04 PM

Spacecraft state vectors.

sreanyesterday at 9:36 PM

Not sure but synthetic massive aperture radio telescope would need syncing their local clocks.

I defer to the experts.

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dyauspitryesterday at 9:34 PM

GPS