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The Flat Earth Society => Suggestions & Concerns => Topic started by: Thork on September 18, 2014, 09:04:36 PM

Title: Forum clock is about 2 mins out
Post by: Thork on September 18, 2014, 09:04:36 PM
The site time is about 2 mins fast.
Title: Re: Forum clock is about 2 mins out
Post by: Lemon on September 18, 2014, 09:54:14 PM
Um... Is this a huge problem (if true)?
Title: Re: Forum clock is about 2 mins out
Post by: Lord Dave on September 18, 2014, 10:27:51 PM
And which time standard are you using to judge this?
Title: Re: Forum clock is about 2 mins out
Post by: Ghost of V on September 18, 2014, 10:53:04 PM
Quote from: Lord Dave on September 18, 2014, 10:27:51 PM
And which time standard are you using to judge this?

TST

Thork Standard Time
Title: Re: Forum clock is about 2 mins out
Post by: Thork on September 18, 2014, 11:33:00 PM
Quote from: Lord Dave on September 18, 2014, 10:27:51 PM
And which time standard are you using to judge this?
You will be surprised to know that time zones are all synced to the same minute, so its out for everyone by 2 mins. Changing to EST isn't going to help me. I could move 10 miles east, but that would only alter the local time by 2 minutes. Not GMT.
Title: Re: Forum clock is about 2 mins out
Post by: xasop on September 18, 2014, 11:36:20 PM
No it isn't. The server runs NTP, a highly accurate system for synchronising clocks, and synchronises with two servers in California, one in the UK, and one in Australia. Its clock is currently within 5 milliseconds of every one of those servers (see the offset column):

Code: [Select]
# ntpq -pn
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 2001:470:1:117: 216.218.192.202  2 u   22   64   17    0.552   -1.917   0.071
*2600:3c01::f03c 127.67.113.92    2 u   22   64   17    0.312   -1.698   0.140
 130.88.200.4    194.66.31.14     2 u   21   64   17  142.525    4.139   0.255
 203.26.24.6     198.60.22.240    2 u   16   64   17  181.174   -3.038   9.326

Maybe your system clock is two minutes behind?
Title: Re: Forum clock is about 2 mins out
Post by: Thork on September 18, 2014, 11:42:43 PM
Quote from: Parsifal on September 18, 2014, 11:36:20 PM
No it isn't. The server runs NTP, a highly accurate system for synchronising clocks, and synchronises with two servers in California, one in the UK, and one in Australia. Its clock is currently within 5 milliseconds of every one of those servers (see the offset column):

Code: [Select]
# ntpq -pn
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 2001:470:1:117: 216.218.192.202  2 u   22   64   17    0.552   -1.917   0.071
*2600:3c01::f03c 127.67.113.92    2 u   22   64   17    0.312   -1.698   0.140
 130.88.200.4    194.66.31.14     2 u   21   64   17  142.525    4.139   0.255
 203.26.24.6     198.60.22.240    2 u   16   64   17  181.174   -3.038   9.326

Maybe your system clock is two minutes behind?
Impossible. I have windows 8. 8)
Title: Re: Forum clock is about 2 mins out
Post by: xasop on September 18, 2014, 11:43:31 PM
Quote from: Thork on September 18, 2014, 11:42:43 PM
Impossible. I have windows 8. 8)

Fair enough. Locked.