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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. The intelligent way by halftrack · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Look at my left wrist, and see if it checks with my pc-clock. If not I set it - that is; the pc-clock.

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  2. Re:And they could only kill women as well! by ssklar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That song was written and performed by Joe Jackson; Anthrax covered it.

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