Can you please tell me what time it is? Adventures with public NTP servers., (Wed, Dec 21st)

Keeping accurate time has never been easier. In the early days of my computing experience, the accuracy of computer clocks was always questionable. Many of them kept worse time than a $5 wristwatch. Having a cheap quartz oscillator on a motherboard with widely varying temperatures just didn't work all that well.
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