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bhouston
9 months ago
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Clocks do drift. Seconds a week is definitely possible. I think there are varying quality of internal clocks in electronic devices, and the cheaper the quality the more drift there is. I think small cheap microcontrollers can drift seconds per day.
ycui1986
9 months ago
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cheap microcontrollers use RC oscillators. If they only drift a few seconds a day, that would be an achievement by itself.
RC oscillator is poor enough that early days USB communication would fail if running on RC clock.
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