On Wed, 26 May 2010 13:50:58 +0200, Frank Fesevur <f...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 2010/5/26 Maarten Deen: >> From the article: >>> Without it, ATMs would stop spitting out cash, Wall Street could blunder >>> billions of dollars in stock trades and clueless drivers would get lost. >> >> Can someone explain to me why an ATM would need a GPS in order to >> dispense >> cash? Or why Wall Street needs it to trade? These things are stationary. >> Ok, maybe stock traders can use it to see where shipments of the >> companies >> the trade in are, but that seems pretty far fetched. Still, ATMs? > > I think it is the exact clock of the GPS that is used for those > systems, but that is just a guess.
I would assume that implementing NTP in software is cheaper. ATMs are wired into a bank's network. And do you really need hundreths of a second accuracy for an ATM transaction? And how about ATMs that are indoors and can't get a lock? Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk