#TIL today i learned that android 13 has a clock setting feature that allows you to use GPS to get the time

wow, about time

GPS signals are literally clocks

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but who would want to keep their GPS on at all times?

you don't have to, it just turns on like once a day for 2 minutes and resets your system's real time clock

even the lowest quality quartz oscillators are accurate enough to not slip more than a few seconds out of sync, plus keep in mind that the actual day varies itself... and interestingly, recetnly the day has been getting shorter than 24 hours, for about 10 years now it has been getting faster (it's because of a very large scale magnetic polarity shift in process)

there are wristwatches that can do this now

yeah, there was terrestrial time signals at one time too, but most of the stations shut down a decade ago sadly