| | | | - | - | | | from Pogo, Walt Kelly | ACTS NIST Automated Computer Time Service\. NIST provides a civil time reference for computers equipped with analog modems that can dial in to its phone lines\. Due to variability of delays in the analog phone network accuracy is not very good, around 4 milliseconds compared to around a microsecond for PPS\. But the service is still occasionally used as a backup to more precise sources\. association An association is the relationship that a...

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