Making a Dumb NTP Clock Smart: DST Compensation with a Unikernel
My Mondaine SBB wall clock looks great on the wall, but it has a fundamental flaw: it treats NTP time as UTC and applies a fixed offset. It does have a manual DST toggle, but every time change I’d need to take it off the wall, connect to its Wi-Fi, and flip the setting. Cumbersome enough that I prefer spending a few hours implementing a fake NTP server to compensate :) ...