Where does my computer get the time from?

[josejad]

I know there are people here interested in such things, and probably they find this interesting

Where does my computer get the time from? – Tony Finch

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[aeric]

I know there are people here interested in such things, and probably they find this interesting

Where does my computer get the time from? – Tony Finch

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I don't care. I just know I need an Internet connection to connect to the time server.

 

[Filippo]

 

[rabbitBUSH]

In Africa we do it this way :

 

[hatzisn]

I know there are people here interested in such things, and probably they find this interesting

Where does my computer get the time from? – Tony Finch

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I got tired of spinning down the mouse wheel...
Pretty informative nevertheless...

 

[Daestrum]

I think my computer(s) just look out of the window to find the time. ( I can see the Royal Observatory in Greenwich from the lounge )

 

[rabbitBUSH]

I can see the Royal Observatory in Greenwich from the lounge

Now there's a weird situation - is your local in the east or the west - so if you take your laptop with you Google will Never know where you are - that would mess with location services.....would love to see and experiment with a machine on "the line" (or lets go to the 180 line and see if Windows can figure out the date and time). the ultimate time and space thought experiment.....

 

[Alain75]

I know there are people here interested in such things, and probably they find this interesting

Where does my computer get the time from? – Tony Finch

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Your PC gets day and time from the network except if you set it manually. Windows gets them from a server : time.windows.com. And with the location of your @IP, it knows your time zone.

 

[Daestrum]

Now there's a weird situation - is your local in the east or the west

I am to the west of the prime meridian. Longitude -9 seconds ( -0.0025 degrees )