Is It Just Me? (Board Time Off)

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-03-27 12:54am

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...

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-03-27 12:55am

Dunno. Lets find out...

EDIT: Yep, ten minutes.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-27 12:56am

Yeah, it's 10 minutes behind. I just noticed that.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-27 01:01am

Damn server clock must be off.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-27 01:02am

Weird. Same here.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-27 01:04am

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.