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

    3. Having the correct time, always: Priceless.

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

    4) ???
    5) Profit

  4. 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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