{"id":3426,"date":"2009-08-18T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2009-08-18T03:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T08:00:43","slug":"time-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3426","title":{"rendered":"TIME on Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,1915588,00.html\">Why Can&#8217;t My Clocks Keep Time Accurately?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A short article, directed mostly at the problem of synchronization, as applied to everyday life:  your electronic devices display different times.  Why?  Because you <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/71\">always have to synchronize your clocks<\/a>, no matter how good they are.  The question remains, how often do you need to do this?<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most computers carry an on-board clock powered by a separate battery. As the battery drains over time, the computer&#8217;s timekeeping becomes less accurate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is true, but the clocks aren&#8217;t super-accurate to begin with.  The battery draining isn&#8217;t the whole problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Can&#8217;t My Clocks Keep Time Accurately? A short article, directed mostly at the problem of synchronization, as applied to everyday life: your electronic devices display different times. Why? Because you always have to synchronize your clocks, no matter how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}