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On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:07:34 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> Whay would a millisecond matter? System clocks are never synchronized to 
> official UTC time that closely without special hardware to receive time 
> broadcasts.
>
	These days the most likely synchronization source is probably
obtained from a GPS receiver rather than a national time standard
broadcast. <G>

 
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