Bitcoin doesn’t “know” what time it is. The genesis block could have used 0 as the first time stamp and as long as the next block was within 2 hours of that it would be accepted. All the nodes sync up using something that they will reasonably agree on as their current time so it can measure how much time passed between blocks to determine the difficulty.
I’m probably not explaining it well!
wolfbearclaw / Counter Narrative
npub1pw…8pf5t
2023-08-31 16:43:23
in reply to nevent1q…5mst
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npub1pwtrrydty95q5ces0tkm2r7hkqfe9jwxhmmee5xwke6g4lz70l7sd8pf5tPublished at
2023-08-31 16:43:23Event JSON
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