[OSM-talk] US to spend $8bn upgrading GPS constellation

[John Smith]

On 26 May 2010 23:01, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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?

I doubt individual ATMs sync from GPS, but the banking network as a
whole probably syncs from GPS.