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VANITY: FR -- slightly ahead of its time?
my beady little brain
| Feb 11, 2012
| HTRN
Posted on 02/10/2012 10:28:46 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
It's been several weeks, I think, and the timestamp which gets put on my postings (and other fresh postings) seems to be about ten minutes or so ahead of the actual time. This can't be a time zone issue. What gives? Or is Illinois so retarded that even all its clocks are slow?
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 13; 13minutes; frproblem
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It’s been that way for about a year and a half.
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:31:02 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The standard physics explanation is that we're so cool that we're ahead of everyone else in the world.
/johnny
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:33:11 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:33:42 PM PST
by
I see my hands
(The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
To: smokingfrog
There some server issue which makes it impractical to walk the clocks back, even by slowing it in micro-increments until it has gotten back in coordination?
adjtime(3)
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:33:48 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: HiTech RedNeck
To: HiTech RedNeck
have you considered winding your watch?
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:38:09 PM PST
by
G Larry
(We are NOT obliged to carry the snake in our pocket and then dismiss the bites as natural behavior.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Well, it’s leap year and we have to add a whole day at the end of the month, so maybe things could get sync’d up then.
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:40:54 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Who cares? If it works don’t mess with it.
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:42:36 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The servers are actually housed on a satellite that orbits the Earth. After so many years up in space and with its speed, it is now roughly 10 minutes into the future. This also means that it receives your posts 10 minutes before you’ve actually made them.
To: smokingfrog
All modern computers already know how to do leap day... JR won’t have to go tell them to do that. What they don’t know, unless they link to a time server on the internet, is how to keep tied to actual GMT. If FR is just for yacking that’s one thing, but if some event of national interest happens that is unfolding in real time, it would be nice to see the actual time on things like “well, the sixth earthquake shock in this New Madrid Fault series that was 8 on the Richter scale just hit Chicago.”
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:49:56 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: HiTech RedNeck
Been that way for a long time, We’re running in the FreepZone.
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posted on
02/10/2012 10:51:48 PM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(Romney just makes me tired all over.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
We're using modern computers??
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posted on
02/10/2012 11:08:39 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I am posting this from the future!
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posted on
02/10/2012 11:13:51 PM PST
by
Drago
To: smokingfrog
Ah, the days of wearing suits and ties, rather than tee shirts and mountain boots (in case a mountain should spring up suddenly), in the machine room.
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posted on
02/10/2012 11:13:55 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: HiTech RedNeck; John Robinson; Jim Robinson
John Robinson doesn’t want any of us to be late.
Please show some gratitude.
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posted on
02/11/2012 12:22:27 AM PST
by
onyx
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It’s been this way for over a year. You just noticed? Those Illinois folks too fast for you?
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posted on
02/11/2012 2:18:47 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
02/11/2012 4:34:28 AM PST
by
stylin19a
(time to Obamanos)
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