It's on the BBC and so people expect it to be accurate.
For example, I imagine a lot of people aren't sure if/when the clocks change (daylights saving time). They check on the BBC, see that their computer time is "accurate" and assume the clocks haven't changed.
As another example, I often google "time" to check to see if my clock is accurate. If that just echoed back my local time I would feel like that was a breach of trust
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It's on the BBC and so people expect it to be accurate.
For example, I imagine a lot of people aren't sure if/when the clocks change (daylights saving time). They check on the BBC, see that their computer time is "accurate" and assume the clocks haven't changed.
As another example, I often google "time" to check to see if my clock is accurate. If that just echoed back my local time I would feel like that was a breach of trust