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Comment Whatâ(TM)s the use case for this? (Score 1) 99

âoeIf you were a developer, you probably used something like Facebook.com as a time checking mechanism,â¦â. No. We âoeprobablyâ donâ(TM)t. I just did an informal (non-scientific) poll of the developers that I am currently working with and no one said that they had even heard that Facebook has a time service. Our computers sync to the NIST time server to keep our machine clocks accurate. When we need the time, we just use our system clocks. If we need something more accurate than that, we call NIST directly (but that rarely if ever happens because our system clocks are good enough for everything we need to do.

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