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by nicksardo 1414 days ago
I'll do that, thanks. I've never had feedback that's indicated people wanted to know.

It uses NTP's clock synchronization algorithm to get the servers' time. This is done over a websocket as it's twice as fast as a typical ajax request/response. Then all changes are made using the browser's idea of server time.

At the bottom of the page, you can see your computer/phone's time offset and precision.