• Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    You heard of standby and the likes? What do you recon that does to programs calculating with time in that exact moment?

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      11 months ago

      I… Actually don’t know.

      The real time clock continues to move in real time under reasonable conditions. If it’s in a weird year it’s either because you’ve decided to run a disk you found in a cave, left by the Ancient Ones, or you’re cheating at Animal Crossing.

      I’m a little unclear on how the rest of the clocks typically work together. If your program is drawing from one that gets stopped for a while, I guess yeah, a minute could totally be weeks long, and I’m in the picture as a falsehood believer.