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Clock but we saved DB space by just returning the index of the array of DigitNames (lemmy.world)

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[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

UTC has leap seconds. We can do better. PTP/TAI for lyfe.

A perfectly logical clock would use a radio broadcast to count off seconds since a predefined epoch. Put a few of them way up high, so more people can see it, and make them so astonishingly precise that you could tell where you are just by listening.

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