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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)
Your power company: The first NTP server.
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Yes. "Electrically checked by your electric utility company to correspond with official Naval Observatory time." - General Electric clock ad, 1948.[1]
[1]
https://books.google.com/books?id=W0oEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA9&ots=4...
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