Let's Check Our Watches: How Computers Count Time (and Why It's So Hard)

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• Why measuring time in computers is one of the most difficult engineering problems
• What is time in a computer and how is it calculated
• What is a crystal oscillator
• What limitations do processors impose on working with time
• The "Y2K problem", the "Y2K problem" and other large-scale time problems
• In what format was time stored in the first computers
• Why was the "beginning of the Unix era" taken as the starting point
• Where are reference computer clocks "stored"
• What is NTP and how is a hierarchical network of NTP servers structured
• Where do inaccuracies in calculating time in computer systems come from? How do engineers deal with this
• Features of working with time zones. What are GMT and UTC

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