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Is It Just Me? (Board Time Off)

Posted: 2003-03-27 12:54am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Is the board's time off by about ten minutes for anyone else? Before I left for Spring Break two weeks ago, it was accurate with Sarah's clock, my alarm clock, my microwave, and watch.

Over Spring Break in CR I noticed that it was something like five to ten minutes behind the regular time. Then when I get back to IC, I see that it's now ten minutes behind everything.

Anyone having the same problem? I know that it can't be on my end... :?

Posted: 2003-03-27 12:55am
by XaLEv
Dunno. Lets find out...

EDIT: Yep, ten minutes.

Posted: 2003-03-27 12:56am
by Kuja
Yeah, it's 10 minutes behind. I just noticed that.

Posted: 2003-03-27 01:01am
by Darth Wong
Damn server clock must be off.

Posted: 2003-03-27 01:02am
by Captain tycho
Weird. Same here. :?

Posted: 2003-03-27 01:04am
by Darth Wong
It's not too surprising. Computer real-time clocks are usually poor and sometimes downright awful. If you don't set up your server to periodically update its RTC against one of the NTP servers, a lot of them will eventually slide off. I had an Asus board once (good brand name, which goes to show how prevalent the problem is) which lost about 5 minutes every day. I had it set up to resynchronize its RTC every hour.