Why are some clocks faster than others? Sometimes even with digital clocks where the timings are electronically set.

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Why are some clocks faster than others? Sometimes even with digital clocks where the timings are electronically set.

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There needs to be some way to generate the signal that does the counting, and those methods are not perfect, especially the cheap ones.

Some devices connect to better time bases. Cell phones get their time from the network, and GPS units get their time from the extremely accurate clocks on GPS satellites.