Fun With Copper! (And System Clocks)

Last night the whole family got into a multiplayer Minecraft game for the first time in a while. Weirdly enough, *one* system was showing way to many materials as copper. Even stuff like snow. WTF? Well, we realized it was after 7 PM local time, which meant on UTC time it was already April 1, so it must be this year's April Fool's joke for Minecraft. (Or in this case, one of the mods.) But why only on one computer? Then it hit me: The host was a Windows machine, which means the hardware […]

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