How good is your clock, really? When I was young, if the clock on the wall was within 5 minutes of correct, that was usually good enough for most people. The only easy way to find the “right” time was to dial a phone number that would read out the time to you (“at the tone the time will be… eight fifty two and twenty seconds… beep.”). We’ve come a ways since then; most modern computers use NTP to synchronize their clocks over the Internet automatically, generally getting their t...
