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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> More than that. You have to do it periodically.

Absolutely

> exist radio clock devices doing that much better. It is no seller.

It might be a 'no seller' - but it's already 'flying' ;-)


> So you actually disagree with Randy! (:-))

I'm not sure now! ;-)

All I'm saying is that for the embedded system I work with, we don't
/need/ UTC (and I suspect that's true for a lot of apps). We do need
a notion of timestamp but there is no need to actually tie it to UTC or
any 'calendar' - it just needs to be from 'reset' for each board.