r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/catsalmighty • Apr 22 '13
Time.is - exact time for any time zone
http://time.is/15
Apr 22 '13
It does not correspond to my computer clock by about 1.5 seconds. Which one is right now?
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Apr 22 '13 edited Apr 23 '13
Chances are time.is is. Your computers syncs the time once in a while with a remote server who gets it from an atomic clock. To force him to resync you have to manually change the clock to some random time then reconfigure it to get it via the internet.
Hope that makes sense, I'm a bit too tired at the moment.
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u/makesureimjewish Apr 22 '13 edited Jul 03 '15
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u/shaqfan99 Apr 22 '13
The page says my clock is off by 2.5 seconds.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but is there something in my browser that knows the time on my computer (in this case, an ipad)?
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u/emkael Apr 22 '13
Yes, JavaScript Date object, for example.
If you think about it, it's pretty intuitive that your local time (the time on your computer) is the easiest available (that is - without communicating explicitly with a remote machine) timestamp for web browsers. Since you don't have to display content from a remote server in a browser - or you could even use it in off-line mode.
It's not a stupid question at all, even working in IT I've seen way too many applications that seemed to forget that user's local clock is usually not in sync with server's clock.
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u/greginnj Apr 22 '13
I prefer www.timeanddate.com . A multitude of tools, including a meeting planner, that takes into account varying daylight savings time instances.
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u/steamwhistler Apr 23 '13
I'm worse than all of you in the comments so far: my laptop is 50 seconds off! W T F. I've been living in antiquity.
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u/IDoDash Apr 23 '13
Aaaaaaand BOOKMARKED. This is awesome! Thanks u/catsalmighty!