What time is it...really?

>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?