eli5: How do you tell a computer what time it is? You can tell a mechanical clock to tick every second using physics but how do you do the same to a non-moving electronic device?

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eli5: How do you tell a computer what time it is? You can tell a mechanical clock to tick every second using physics but how do you do the same to a non-moving electronic device?

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Answer 1

You do it with a quartz, which emits a pulse at specific intervals when a certain voltage passes through it.