Tick Tock was a powerful exile who was rumored to have originally functioned as a time keeper in one of the previous version of the Matrix. He mainly exists in Maribeau.
In Chapter 7.3.5, this exile struck up a conversation with operative SiskoUrso, discussing the nature of time in the Matrix, and how the Machines manage to keep the simulation always in the year 1999, resetting the time to the start of the year at the moment of New Years.[1]
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- "They couldn't go too far forward. They'd run into themselves."
- "They couldn't go too far back--not enough information."[2]
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