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Do you not appreciate how incredibly annoying it would be if the clocks in the next town over were 5 minutes ahead of yours?
by TylerE 1y ago
Do you not appreciate how incredibly annoying it would be if the clocks in the next town over were 5 minutes ahead of yours?
- endgame 1y agoNot viscerally, but this was meant to be an obviously unserious proposal.
- solid_fuel 1y agoForget different towns being 5 minutes ahead, from the other linked qntm post [0]: > At the equator, the position directly underneath the mean Sun travels west at about 463 metres per second. That means a standard rack unit is about one millisecond wide. At latitudes closer to the poles, the effect is amplified, although but not by more than an order of magnitude in the realistically habitable parts of the world. Even a row of servers would all have different times. [0] https://qntm.org/continuous https://qntm.org/continuous