alt Hacker NewsYeah, but we're thinking of systems where nanoseconds matter.
MiFID 2 alone forces sub-μs precision. Million times less than the leap 1 second.
NTP minute away is good for displaying date on the workstation, not for many of the devices that are critical to the modern world.
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cyanydeez • last Monday at 7:43 PM
dont most systems that rely on sharp timing simply manage it themselves.
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MiFID 2 does not require nanosecond accuracy. It's something like 100 microseconds in the strictest case.
Some MiFID reports require microsecond or perhaps nanosecond precision, but that's really just a formatting requirement "please write your timestamps with six figures after the decimal point."