How does a program know actually what a second is?

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So if a program needs to wait 10 seconds for something, how it is actually calculating it if the processors speed continously changes? (And i’m talking about offline programs that does not use NTP)

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You accidentally stumbled upon one of the hardest issues in computer science. Dealing with time, time zones, time calculations, clock drift, etc, is a nightmare.

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