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Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react?

tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

People who look at timestamped data would notice immediately. Server logs, transaction logs, etc would all be missing a minute’s worth of data. Things that take a known amount of time would not be completed on time. Trains would be late, burritos would be under-microwaved, satellites would be in unexpected positions, etc. So some people would notice instantly, some may not notice at all.

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DSTGU@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
“trains would be late”

cmn. Noone is gonna notice a minute difference with trains

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shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
“At least, that’s what everyone thought…”

*movie begins*

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hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Under-microwaved burritos??

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- antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah my microwave operates on a timer, not a clock
  
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  - nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It says countdown timers and the like would also jump.
    
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takeheart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
A lot of software is reliant on very precise timing. The world at large would notice immediately due to the many disconnects, glitches, bugs, desyncs, not to say anything of all the physical processes controlled by machines going wrong. As a simple example consider an industrial oven (or any process really) that is programmed to shut down at 4:39:20 but at 4:39:15 the 1 minute skip happens. An airplanes auto pilot that is suddenly missing the last minute of sensor data to. base its micro steering on. Any big internet service that has to deal with thousands to millions of clients trying to reconnect at once because their previous connection timed out. Bad stuff.

This would be immediate world wide chaos and likely panic as the cause for all the chaos would be unknown and forever would be. Economic crash likely.

Think of all the attention and effort the year 2k problem got, but this one is worse and there is no prep whatsoever.

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- FleetingTit@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Most of those problems would solve itself though. Things would just happen a minute too early, which might cause chaos for an hour or so, but overall nothing too serious. But IT people all over the world would try to find out how that mysterious gap in their logs and data happened for weeks afterwards.
  
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