Instruments of Precision

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• NTP server – Instruments of Precision Time synchronisation in the modern age is highly precise. Modern atomic clocks can keep time so accurately that in 100 million years these timekeeping devices will not lose even a second. Bit is this sort of accuracy necessary in the modern world? How important can a second possibly be, after all, a second has always been seen as one of the smallest units of time. However, when you consider modern technology such as the satellite navigation then a second suddenly becomes a huge gulf in time. Modern satellite navigation devices work by calculating distance by using the time form the atomic clocks ...
  
  
• NTP server – Instruments of Precision Time synchronisation in the modern age is highly precise. Modern atomic clocks can keep time so accurately that in 100 million years these timekeeping devices will not lose even a second. Bit is this sort of accuracy necessary in the modern world? How important can a second possibly be, after all, a second has always been seen as one of the smallest units of time. However, when you consider modern technology such as the satellite navigation then a second suddenly becomes a huge gulf in time. Modern satellite navigation devices work by calculating distance by using the time form the atomic clocks ...
  
  
• The NTP Server and the Atomic Clock – Reason for Precision In an age of atomic clocks and the NTP server time keeping is now more accurate then ever with ever increasing precision having allowed many of the technologies and systems we now take for granted. Whilst timekeeping has always been a preoccupation of mankind, it has only been in the last few decades that true accuracy has been possible thanks to the advent of the atomic clock. Before atomic time, electrical oscillators like those found in the average digital watch were the most accurate measure of time and whilst electronic clocks like these are far more precise than their predecessors – the ...
  
  
• Technologies that rely on Atomic Clocks (part one) Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeeping devices known to man. There accuracy is incomparable to other clocks and chronometers in that whilst even the most sophisticated electronic clock will drift by a second every week or two, the most modern atomic clocks can keep running for thousands of years and not lose even a fraction of a second. The accuracy of an atomic clock is down to what they use as their basis for time measurement. Instead of relying on an electronic current running through a crystal like an electronic clock, an atomic clock uses the hyperfine transition of an ...
  
  
• GPS Time Server – Utilising Satellite Navigation as a Timing Source Satellite navigation has been around for the last few decades courtesy of the American military controlled GPS system (Global Positioning System). The GPS network is currently the World’s only GNSS (global navigation satellite system, although Europe, Russia and China are developing their own. GNSS systems like GPS are based on the same principle. A constellation of satellites orbiting the Earth each have onboard an atomic clock. These clocks are accurate to within a few microseconds and it is this time-telling accuracy that allows satellite navigation possible. The GPS satellite continually transmits its location along with the time told by its atomic clock. ...