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What are some examples of xkcd 2347? (xkcd.com)
submitted 1 year ago by jeff@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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I've heard people mention curl and imagemagick. Any others that you know about?

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Network Time Protocol was certainly one of these for a long time, although I think it gets reasonable support now.

Having the clock read the same on all the computers in the world makes so many thing possible.

[–] Gork@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A bit older, but how did time even get standardized between time zones so we're all synchronized to the same minute / second, only being different by the hour?

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Oh you're in for a great story! It mostly comes down to the American railroads, but you can listen to a good podcast on it at https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730727038/episode-918-the-day-of-two-noons