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A basic overview of how time can be synchronized in industrial and daily life applications, focusing on the types of reference clocks and time sources that can be used for time synchronization, as well as possible ways to distribute the time from these sources, and limitations of different approaches.
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Burnicki, M. (2017). Aspects of Time Distribution. In: Arias, E., Combrinck, L., Gabor, P., Hohenkerk, C., Seidelmann, P. (eds) The Science of Time 2016. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 50. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_38
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