The Royal Observatory DisagreesI let two clocks burn on in the corner of my computer screen. Local time sits on top, flicking by in digital hours and minutes. I keep local time in a twelve hour format. I have configured the widget to not blink, or shout, or otherwise cause a ruckus. It makes no more movement than once per minute. It does not steal the focus of my eyes from me. For no good reason, local time is blue.
Right below local time in blue sits a sister clock, this time UTC, and in tan. While local time flexes with the seasons to give my poor eyes more light, UTC remains constant, locked on the turn of the earth marked (more or less) by a telescope. UTC is always ahead, and sometimes determines a different day. UTC is in 24-hour format. Because the formats spin to zero at different paces, I sometimes confuse myself.
Sometimes, they do not change at the same time.
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