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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-03-14 10:09 PM, David Thornton
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<div>"Keeping time in sync" is a cornerstone to technology from
gps to ssl, from hft to big data.</div>
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Absolutely. At the solar plant I audited the other week, I was
amused to see that the great big huge expensive grid protection and
control box was controlled via GPS sync. It's the cheapest way to
maintain grid frequency at the far end of the grid. And I mean <i>far</i>;
5 hours west of Thunder Bay …<br>
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style="color:rgb(65,63,65);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.0832462310791px;line-height:19.4999446868897px">My
finance client's use ptp not ntp.</span></div>
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Is PTP particularly hard to use? It looks like an ISO standard, so
will likely be fiddly but complete.<br>
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cheers,<br>
Stewart<br>
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