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You seem to be confusing the ability to measure time passing with the knowledge of what absolute time it is.

Electronics these days measure time passing by counting oscillations of e.g. a quartz crystal. They know e.g. 16000000 oscillations is 1 second +- 0.001%. They don't know when 4pm is.



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