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RSA SecureID has been doing this for decades and decades. They use a not-tremendously-accurate battery backed quartz RTC with some drift compensation built into the server side.

There are a ton of other options though. Atomic clock signals are broadcast nationwide in the US. GPS, Glonass, etc. signals broadcast the time. Cellular networks broadcast the time.



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