time-of-day clock

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time-of-day clock

See real-time clock, NTP and UTC.

time-of-day clock [¦tīm əv ¦dā ‚kläk]

(computer science)

An electronic device that registers the actual time, generally accurate to 0.1 second, through a 24-hour cycle, and transmits its reading to the central processing unit of a computer upon demand.

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