This remind me of when the BBC had to remove the clock from their Internet homepage. This was because it just used the local time on the user's machine, and so was considered to be inaccurate (and people would assume the BBC were authoritative!)

What surprised me looking up the story is that it happened surprisingly recently in 2013. I would have assumed that by that time the average person were sufficiently internet savvy to recognize that the clock was not remotely generated somehow. I wonder if the same conclusion would be reached today, or if BBC developers would instead sync the time between the server and website.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/bbc-forced-t...