Hey! Why don't you go by my computer's time?
2My computer said it's 12:08 am so I head over to Meh and hit refresh to see what the new day brought. Hmm, still helicopter. Refresh. Same. Ctrl F5. Same. Dammit. What's up with this, Meh? Look at bedside clock. 11:51 pm. Fucking shit. My stupid laptop gained ~15 minutes even though I fixed that (again) yesterday. Carry on, Meh.
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You can set your PC to go by internet time -- but mine still runs a minute or two fast most days. It really screws with my TV tuner -- constantly cuts off the end of TV shows when I record them
Capguncowboy lies
@capguncowboy What's this guy's problem with you? He's searching out all your posts and calling you a liar...
It's really screwing up my inbox zero for this forum...I had all the links grey now he's made them all black again. :(
Sure, you tell one person on the internet that you're a woman, and send them pictures of your dong, and they call you a liar!
It's a known error/bug with the Toshiba laptop I have. I have it set to sync with the internet, but I still have to force it every day or so to correct the time. I'd just done it last night and didn't realize it had gained again. It's better than it running slow, but frustrating all the same sometimes.
if I'm not mistaken there's an OS X flaw that the time doesn't sync until you go in to look at whether it's still set to sync. Mac?
@snapster Not a Mac, it's a Toshiba. I don't work with Macs.
@snapster Yes? May I help you?
You could just wear a watch. Remember those things??
And sync it to your laptop! Oh...wait. Same problem.
It wouldn't matter because if I'm on the computer, I'm still going to look at the time that's right in front of me. My phone and alarm clock are right beside me and it still took me stupidly refreshing multiple times before I thought to doublecheck the time on either of them. haha
You could have your computer use different time servers instead of the default Microsoft ones. If you're interested, leave a note, and I'll dig up some for you. (No idea if it will actually fix it- probably will, but not certain).
I tried it with all four choices on the comp's menu, but if you have different sources, I'd be happy to try.
If you're in the US: http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi# If you're international: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers
Several of the ones I have to choose from are nist.gov. I don't know how to force my computer to use others, though. :-/
It's all @Ryaneil's fault !
It's a lot of work changing the time a little each day, but messing with the small things really gets in people's heads.
Sundials still work.
Travel Sunrise-((travel time)/2) until you see the sun, then come back for site launch. but then you need to know sunrise. need coffee.
http://www.pretentiousname.com/timesync/ Sync every hour.
Thank you, @caffeine_dude! Trying this now.
I think this is brilliant. Men should let us sync time to their servers.
@PurplePawprints how did you turn out? Any questions?
You could change the sync frequency if 1 hour is too much or too little.
So far so good! Time will tell, though.
Oh, and I started out with a once a day frequency, @caffeine_dude. If necessary, I'll make it more frequent.