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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?

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IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Its ambiguous to see how different people interpret it. My thought when I typed the question was that anything that is closer to Earth than the moon is considered part of “World Wide”, but I can see how some people would interpret satelites are not part of “World Wide”.

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muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
No what they mean is that GPS uses timestamps to calculate position so messing with time would mess with position. GPS is so precise at measuring time we need to account for time dilation due to Einstein and satellites traveling at speed.

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- piecat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  So do we need to take time dilation into account?
  
  1 minute forward in all reference frames? Is there an 81pSec difference in the time jump?
  
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  - muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah we need to account for time dilation but since op doesn’t specify this it would break GPS.
    
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- tuck182@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That wacky Einstein, still dilating time from beyond the grave.
  
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