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by **Jack Saladin** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:20 am UTC

You don't need to point it out again.

by **ThorFluff** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:32 am UTC

Hey, The timestamp is off!

But a more serious question,as someone vaguely technically interested, why is the time wrong?

by **German Sausage** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:42 am UTC

probably something simple like the server's internal clock being wrong. give it time.

by **no-genius** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:08 pm UTC

maybe its the right times, but the wrong names for the region?

by **Jack Saladin** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:14 pm UTC

by **lanicita** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:19 pm UTC

It's like 4 and a half hours off for everyone. Not a problem with the region names.

by **Jack Saladin** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:29 pm UTC

I don't think this warrants further discussion.

by **RealGrouchy** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:46 pm UTC

Tough shit.

There is currently a problem with the timestamp. Presumably, something will be done to attempt to fix it.

When such a thing is done, it is reasonable to expect people to comment on the success or failure of that attempt.

Unlock'd.

- RG>

Website · by **thefiddler** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 9:36 pm UTC

Hooray! Davean fixed the time.

by **davean** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:39 pm UTC

thefiddler wrote:Hooray! Davean fixed the time.

I actually got tired of waiting for NTP to pull it into sync slowly and decided introducign a few errors due to a rapid time change was worth it.

Website · by **thefiddler** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:42 pm UTC

Haha, that works too.

Either way, the clock is correct.

*throws an awesome party in Davean and Randy's honor*

by **ThorFluff** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:45 pm UTC

*dances at the party and gets drunk*
In your honor of course!
But my question remains... what was the error? in technical terms?

by **davean** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:52 pm UTC

ThorFluff wrote:*dances at the party and gets drunk*
In your honor of course!
But my question remains... what was the error? in technical terms?

The Xen dom0 had a difrent time configuration from the domU.

by **Gordon** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:38 am UTC

davean wrote:
thefiddler wrote:Hooray! Davean fixed the time.

I actually got tired of waiting for NTP to pull it into sync slowly and decided introducign a few errors due to a rapid time change was worth it.

So he fixed the time, like he said, and then there were errors, like he said.

[/excitement] seriously.

by **DragonHawk** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:57 am UTC

Cool. Like, thanks, and stuff! :-)

by **lanicita** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:48 pm UTC

Locking because it seems to be fixed. If you still have a problem with it, post in the issue reporting thread.

by **MFHodge** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:52 am UTC

Davean - I think the clock is off again. It seems to be about 10-12 minutes fast.

by **Gordon** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:15 am UTC

It's about .43 seconds fast for me... can you fix this ASAP plz KTHX

by **clockworkmonk** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:57 am UTC

Judging based on Official US time and Greenwich Mean time, the forum's clock is approximately 9 minutes fast. This is hard to search for, as the word time is ignored in searches, and was unable to find another topic on this.

Not that it needs to be desperately changed or anything, it just sort of bugs me, and was wondering if there was a way to correct the time.

by **Hammer** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:59 am UTC

You're the Clockwork Monk. If you can't deal with it, what do you expect us to do? :wink:

by **clockworkmonk** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:36 am UTC

I think it would have something to do with these newfangled, non-clockwork clocks. They confuse me to no end, what with all the wires and circuit boards and crystals and atoms and other such nonsense.

by **rrwoods** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:07 pm UTC

clockworkmonk wrote:and atoms

by **LE4dGOLEM** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:40 pm UTC

Cs-133 (133?) decays in precisely one second. It defines the modern second. It is used in some clocks to measure time.

by **Robin S** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:21 pm UTC

Wikipedia wrote:Under the International System of Units, the second is currently defined as
"the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom."

Caesium-133 is not radioactive, so it doesn't "decay" in the conventional sense.

by **Hammer** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:52 pm UTC

OK, I know it's my fault for making a joke in the first place, but quit with the off-topic stuff now, please.

by **evilbeanfiend** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:50 am UTC

going by http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ i make the forum time to be out by about 15 mins

(posted at 9:35 GMT)

by **hyperion** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:57 am UTC

It's off by 15 minutes for me too

It's been getting worse, a while ago it was 5 mintues, then 12 minutes and now 15.

by **evilbeanfiend** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:57 am UTC

yes a small difference doesn't matter much but its getting larger enough that its slightly confusing. not to mention disconcerting to see future me posting all this stuff.

by **TheTankengine** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:03 pm UTC

Does this actually matter?
Seriously, this is not a big deal. There is nothing of critical importance here that requires absolute accuracy of the time posts are made. Just look at your desktop, there's probably a clock there.

by **joshz** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:44 pm UTC

The forum time seems off by a few minutes to me.
It is currently 6:40 EST (as confirmed by http://www.time.gov/), yet the fora report the time as 6:44.

by **kernelpanic** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:55 am UTC

OH NO! 4 minutes! Quick, assemble a team of the hottest scientists!
</asshole>

Anyway, it's off by several hours because it gives you your local time and reports it as UTC (which may be either exact or up to 14 hours off)

by **joshz** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:38 am UTC

kernelpanic wrote:Anyway, it's off by several hours because it gives you your local time and reports it as UTC (which may be either exact or up to 14 hours off)

...not if you select your time zone in the user control panel.

And I reported it because it was fucking up things where post time is important (so it's not a critical problem, but it is a site issue, so I thought I'd mention it here.)

by **Azrael** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:07 am UTC

Thanks for the heads up, but this happens periodically.

by **kernelpanic** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:56 am UTC

joshz wrote:
kernelpanic wrote:Anyway, it's off by several hours because it gives you your local time and reports it as UTC (which may be either exact or up to 14 hours off)
...not if you select your time zone in the user control panel.

And I reported it because it was fucking up things where post time is important (so it's not a critical problem, but it is a site issue, so I thought I'd mention it here.)

But mine is set to UTC -6. And it gives the correct time (to within 1-2 min), it only says UTC when it isn't.

by **PhoenixEnigma** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:07 am UTC

Go to User Control Panel -> Board Preferences -> My Date Format, choose "Custom" and try "D M j, Y G:i:s" without the quotes? I've tried a few of the different premade options with both pro and sub silver, with and without DST and can't replicate it, but if you use a custom time format it should bypass that nicely, I would think.

by **joshz** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:28 am UTC

Nope, still off, but now I can see exactly how far off it is! :P

@Az: OK. So it should clear itself up?

by **Azrael** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:49 pm UTC

Guys: This is known to have happened at the server level several times. Playing with your UCP is not the answer.

Joshz: davean can correct it.

by **joshz** » Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:02 pm UTC

Mmkay.

by **hintss** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:04 am UTC

davean, or an admin, can you please adjust the servertime to UTC?
also, out of curiousity, was it originally set correctly and had time creep, or was it just set wrong.

right now, the moment I submit this, my atomic clock reads 23:01:30

by **phlip** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 6:42 am UTC

Yeah, we know.

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