# What time is it...really?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-really/355468>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 4, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-really/355468 "2006-05-04T23:22:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-is-it-really/355468/21 "2006-05-09T20:11:32Z")

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\>Since the difference between one authority on time and another is likely to be a matter of milliseconds at the most extreme, that seems really unlikely to me that a contract could be judged to be in default over that small a difference in time of completion.

Wasn’t there a case involving one of the model designs for LearJet? The design had to be finished during a particular year, and finally got declared finished to everyone’s satisfaction on December 32 of that year?

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