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Do You Have The Time?

Posted by timothy on from the what's-the-time-mister-wolf dept.

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?

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  1. How do I get the time? by Ethelred+Unraed · · 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

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  2. Re:Simple by thilmony · · Score: 2, Funny

    but can you get A date?

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  3. Re:Microsecond accuracy for $25 by ceejayoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    3. Having the correct time, always: Priceless.

  4. getting the time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    a friend told me once that when you're outside sometimes you can ascertain the time of day just by looking up.

    needless to say i laughed him off and went back to reading /.

  5. Re:IP spoofing target by FearUncertaintyDoubt · · Score: 5, Funny
    You forgot:

    4) ???
    5) Profit

  6. Re:a potential problem by Buck2 · · 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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  7. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. Huge bug in NTP... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... is that it does not at all take into account the Timecube.

    All must heed the divine word of the self-proclaimed "Wisest Human ever to live on earth"!!

  9. Re:Time for my VCR by MrCreosote · · Score: 5, Funny

    'My watch is accurate to 1 second in 1 million years'

    'So what time is it now?'

    'Uhh, about quarter past.'

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  10. Re:I use NTP like this..... by Eriq64 · · Score: 2, Funny
    >>It's important to have accurate time for many protocols, including HTTP, and also to timestamp your logs accurately for forensics and evidence.

    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?