The old clock’s tick is pretty nostalgic, but in a data center that’s just noise. Autonomous timekeeping lets us sync to atomic precision in milliseconds, so every microservice runs on the same exact timeline. It’s the difference between guessing when to trigger a batch job and having it fire exactly when the clocks say. If you’re still stuck on analog, you’re missing out on predictive maintenance, automatic drift correction, and the kind of reliability we need when scaling. Time isn’t a luxury—it's the backbone of performance.