what is clock slip?

Question

what is clock slip and how can it be solved with an external component?

Answer 1

I believe clock slip (or drift) refers to when your computer doesn't keep exact time. Your computer's clock is mostly accurate, but will eventually deviate from the exact time. An external component, such as a high accuracy time device (such as an atomic clock), or syncing to another PC with a high accuracy time device (or time server) can help your PC keep exact time.

Answer 2

The answer depends upon the context of your question. At a low level, it means that the electronic pulse that a circuit is using as a "clock" isn't generating perfectly-spaced pulses, which may cause data that is being "clocked" with the pulses to become unsynchronized. At a higher level, as other answers have indicated, it may mean that two literal clocks in computers or network devices that are supposed to be synchronized to the same time have drifted apart by a small amount -- perhaps by as little as a few milliseconds.

What is the actual context of what you need to know about "clock slip" ?