NMEA & PHC sources

Pull time from a serial GNSS receiver or from a hypervisor / NIC PHC clock, including RMC offset compensation.

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When you don't have a Timecard or external grandmaster, Timebeat can read time from two other source types: NMEA sentences over a serial port, or a kernel-exposed Precision Hardware Clock (common in cloud and virtualised environments).

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