On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:26:58 PM John Andersen wrote:
If you have a bios clock you are probably good. Any pc grade clock will be within a couple minutes even after months in the powered off state.
Should be Easy to test this, just put two of them away somewhere and check the drift after a month with no gps and no Internet connection.
Your local clock should be fine.
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