At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer ...

While computers manage many things with extreme precision, they have surprising difficulty keeping track of time. It’s pretty much impossible for a computer to keep exact time, although accuracy can ...

You’d think that synchronizing the clocks across a fleet of modern servers is a solved problem, but it’s actually quite a hard challenge to solve, especially if you want to get to nanosecond accuracy.