how do the clocks in cars, stoves, phones (I guess?) know what time it is? Is it signals from satellites or something?

Question

how do the clocks in cars, stoves, phones (I guess?) know what time it is? Is it signals from satellites or something?

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Answer 1

I’m not familiar with clocks in stoves, but most clocks in devices connect to a time server over the internet to adjust their times. A time server is a computer which reads time from a reference clock (such as atomic clocks) and distributes that information to connecting/querying devices

That connection could be cellular, WiFi or satellites

Edit: just to add, before the internet and the “internet of things” frameworks, I recall we used to get the _official/government time_ on TV channels or on radio stations with which we used to adjust our clocks if any of them were out of pace