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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Traceability to UTC?

Definition 4.10 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Chapter 4 — Time Synchronisation

Traceability to UTC is an unbroken, documented chain of comparisons from a firm’s timestamps to UTC, each with a stated uncertainty, such that the firm can show, for any timestamp, how far from UTC it could have been.

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