Do You Have The Time? 451
RetroGeek writes: "This ZDNet article talks about the perils of the PC clock. And (something I did not know) that Windows XP and Mac OS X both automatically get a time stamp from MicroSoft and Apple respectively. At any rate, my home firewall gets the time every hour from the NIST servers, then each of the machines on my LAN query the time server daemon on the firewall. That way all my home network machines have the same time. And latency on the LAN is next to zero. Now if I can only get my VCR connected. Anyone else running a time server?" So how do you get the time?
How do I get the time? (Score:5, Funny)
I look at a clock. Or maybe my (wind-up) wristwatch.
Sheesh. Geeks. If it ain't digital, it ain't.
Cheers,
Ethelred [grantham.de]
Re:Simple (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Microsecond accuracy for $25 (Score:5, Funny)
getting the time? (Score:1, Funny)
needless to say i laughed him off and went back to reading /.
Re: Do you have the time? (Score:1, Funny)
Lunch (Score:2, Funny)
Re:IP spoofing target (Score:5, Funny)
4) ???
5) Profit
Re:a potential problem (Score:2, Funny)
My SO is like this and it drives me fucking nuts having all the clocks set anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes in advance. She has it all set up so that she "gains time" from when she gets out of bed to when she gets in her car, ie. the bedroom clock is 20 minutes ahead, the kitchen 15, and the car clock 10.
It's not worth a serious argument though because I don't usually use clocks anyway. It's just annoying as hell when one of my buds asks me the time and I'm like, "Uh, well that clock is 10 minutes ahead, I think. Er, wait, that one's fifteen, it's the other one that's ten. Well, it's like 3:15 plus or minus 10 plus or minus 5."
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Huge bug in NTP... (Score:1, Funny)
All must heed the divine word of the self-proclaimed "Wisest Human ever to live on earth" [thewisesthuman.com]!!
Re:Time for my VCR (Score:5, Funny)
'So what time is it now?'
'Uhh, about quarter past.'
Re:KDE Fuzzy clock (Score:4, Funny)
"Five past three" isn't really all that fuzzy. Mine says "Early July". One of these days I'm going to hack the code to make it really fuzzy ( "Early 21st Centry" in about all the accruacy I want in a clock.)
Re:I use NTP like this..... (Score:2, Funny)
For forensics & evidence?!!
So when they find all the bodies, you can prove to the millisecond that you were 20 miles away logged on to www.blahblah.blah, and couldn't have possibly bludgeoned all those mimes to death with a summer sausage?