Looks like the website clock has gained a couple minutes in the last few days. It's just beginning to be off enough to be mildly distracting. I'm mentioning it now because otherwise nobody will say anything and it will just continue to get worse. One site I used to frequent had the clock gaining time for over a year. By the time the webmaster fixed it, it was over an hour fast. In 18 months not a single person mentioned it. Why have a clock if it's wrong? There are plenty of programs/ services to automatically keep the clock set. Windows automatically updates mine with time.nist.gov once a week.

Thanks!

 

Hell, its the wrong time where I am anyway!! But for some reason, I always take note of it...

 

ke-
Click the 'user cp' link at the top of the page ^ and then go to 'edit options'. About halfway down you can set your time zone so the click will display in your time. Well, except for being a few minutes fast.

 

The server/website clock has been syncing to a nuclear clock every day for the past few weeks. While it has been off in the past, I have not seen it be off for several weeks. What clock are you comparing it to? Are you sure that one is accurate?

 

RJS-Thanks. Guess I missed that one... I will return to my rock now...

 

Webmaster-
Your comment made me double check and you are correct. My computer lost a couple minutes since the last time it updated 5-6 days ago. I manually updated my clock and now it's correct and all is well.

 

Confucious say,

Man with clock know what time it is.
Man with two clock never sure.

 

Computers make lousy clocks. Because they do so much and do it immediately, the time often slips--especially with power saving features (computers that "sleep"), which often lose a few minutes every day, for some reason. I tend to trust the sites clock more than my computer clock, it's always slow.

 

WMR - computers make excellent clocks. Cheap computers with crappy motherboard & old software make crappy clocks.

If your using XP, MS was kind enough to build in NTP (Network Time Protocol) to ensure your PC's time is always synced with an Internet NTP server & dead-nuts on with the atomic clock. I'll trust my PC before any other clock...

 

Our computers have a battery to keep certain memory when the computer gets unplugged. The fact that my clock is losing time is one of the signs that I need to change my battery. It's about 2 years old and is due.

 

Uh, are we still talking about clocks.......? And why am I still subscribed to this thread??????

 

Every PC on the planet made since the 70s have had the internal clock w/ battery...

 

ahhhh, the seventies.....

 

ahhh... my 8088 running at a blistering 4.77Mhz...

 

Ahhh...my '76 Honda Civic CVCC running at a blistering 47MPH...

deservit, got any 5 1/2" disks I can borrow??
(I have read you enough to know better than ask you about FLOPPY disks... I would have been flamed on a grand scale!!!)