Forget different towns being 5 minutes ahead, from the other linked qntm post [0]:
> At the equator, the position directly underneath the mean Sun travels west at about 463 metres per second. That means a standard rack unit is about one millisecond wide. At latitudes closer to the poles, the effect is amplified, although but not by more than an order of magnitude in the realistically habitable parts of the world.
Even a row of servers would all have different times.
Forget different towns being 5 minutes ahead, from the other linked qntm post [0]:
> At the equator, the position directly underneath the mean Sun travels west at about 463 metres per second. That means a standard rack unit is about one millisecond wide. At latitudes closer to the poles, the effect is amplified, although but not by more than an order of magnitude in the realistically habitable parts of the world.
Even a row of servers would all have different times.
[0] https://qntm.org/continuous
Not viscerally, but this was meant to be an obviously unserious proposal.