stackyFACTSThe entire modern internet relies on the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to keep global servers in sync down to the millisecond. If these atomic-clock-driven timestamps drift by even a fraction of a second, banking transactions fail and massive data centers collapse into chaos.
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