VANITY: FR -- slightly ahead of its time?

my beady little brain | Feb 11, 2012 | HTRN

[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?

[smokingfrog]

It’s been that way for about a year and a half.

[JRandomFreeper]

The standard physics explanation is that we're so cool that we're ahead of everyone else in the world.

/johnny

[smokingfrog]

longer actually...

[I see my hands]

What time is it now?

[HiTech RedNeck]

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)

[smoothsailing]

FR has gone to plaid.

[G Larry]

have you considered winding your watch?

[smokingfrog]

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.

[Kirkwood]

Who cares? If it works don’t mess with it.

[Apollo5600]

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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.”

[Mike Darancette]

Been that way for a long time, We’re running in the FreepZone.

[smokingfrog]

We're using modern computers??

[Drago]

I am posting this from the future!

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[onyx]

John Robinson doesn’t want any of us to be late.
Please show some gratitude.

[1rudeboy]

It’s been this way for over a year. You just noticed? Those Illinois folks too fast for you?

[stylin19a]

Bar Time....