The people holding up the internet

9 days ago by _donnadie_ to c/tecnologia

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

They all get local time from one text file, the time zone database, which holds every clock rule a government has ever announced. Paul Eggert, a lecturer at UCLA, keeps that file up to date in his spare time.

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