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TaskManager

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forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

look at your current time displayed on the forums (go to Profile and look at "Time format" or make a post and look at the timestamp)
compare it to your computer's time (if it is set properly) or any online time such as that on timeanddate.com
for me the forum time seems to be 5 minutes behind?

screenshot from timeanddate done 30 seconds ago, compare the minutes to the minutes on this post's timestamp

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Anak

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

Huh, time format says 11:39 yet my phone says 11:44. That's a peculiar... thing, not sure if bug is the right word for it. I wonder where the forums gets its time from?

Different55

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

Huh, time format says 11:39 yet my phone says 11:44. That's a peculiar... thing, not sure if bug is the right word for it. I wonder where the forums gets its time from?

the forums, like any computer, have their own internal clock. Over the past few years it's drifted quite a bit, but I installed and ran NTP which should keep the clock in sync now.

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TaskManager

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

Huh, time format says 11:39 yet my phone says 11:44. That's a peculiar... thing, not sure if bug is the right word for it. I wonder where the forums gets its time from?

the forums, like any computer, have their own internal clock. Over the past few years it's drifted quite a bit, but I installed and ran NTP which should keep the clock in sync now.

it doesnt seem to work.. yet

EDIT: nvm it works for new posts but doesnt fix the timestamp for the old ones.. thank you diff
i guess that means theres a 4-5 minutes gap in time somewhere, can we find it?

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LukeM

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

https://i.imgur.com/N7ccwZR.png
it doesnt seem to work.. yet

I'm assuming old times won't change, but new posts should now show the correct time (which works for me )

TaskManager

Formerly maxi123

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

https://i.imgur.com/N7ccwZR.png
it doesnt seem to work.. yet

I'm assuming old times won't change, but new posts should now show the correct time (which works for me )

EDIT: nvm it works for new posts but doesnt fix the timestamp for the old ones.. thank you diff
i guess that means theres a 4-5 minutes gap in time somewhere, can we find it?

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Different55

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

Huh, time format says 11:39 yet my phone says 11:44. That's a peculiar... thing, not sure if bug is the right word for it. I wonder where the forums gets its time from?

the forums, like any computer, have their own internal clock. Over the past few years it's drifted quite a bit, but I installed and ran NTP which should keep the clock in sync now.

https://i.imgur.com/N7ccwZR.png
it doesnt seem to work.. yet

EDIT: nvm it works for new posts but doesnt fix the timestamp for the old ones.. thank you diff
i guess that means theres a 4-5 minutes gap in time somewhere, can we find it?

Forum posts are stored as happening at X point in time, if the clock was off when it wrote down what the time was, it'll be off forever.

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

time testing

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Michele

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

This is not a joke, do not joke about this sort of thing to scare off someone!

edit: I posted, and the forum time clearly says 12:05 the same as my time. It's not 5 minutes behind!

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TaskManager

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

This is not a joke, do not joke about this sort of thing to scare off someone!

edit: I posted, and the forum time clearly says 12:05 the same as my time. It's not 5 minutes behind!

I wish people actually read through the topic before posting

Huh, time format says 11:39 yet my phone says 11:44. That's a peculiar... thing, not sure if bug is the right word for it. I wonder where the forums gets its time from?

the forums, like any computer, have their own internal clock. Over the past few years it's drifted quite a bit, but I installed and ran NTP which should keep the clock in sync now.

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minam

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

the forums, like any computer, have their own internal clock. Over the past few years it's drifted quite a bit, but I installed and ran NTP which should keep the clock in sync now.

So does it mean the forums now have a more accurate internal clock compared to my Windows 7?

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Michele

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

the forums, like any computer, have their own internal clock. Over the past few years it's drifted quite a bit, but I installed and ran NTP which should keep the clock in sync now.

So does it mean the forums now have a more accurate internal clock compared to my Windows 7?

If you're using another website for your system clock, then yes.

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Different55

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

the forums, like any computer, have their own internal clock. Over the past few years it's drifted quite a bit, but I installed and ran NTP which should keep the clock in sync now.

So does it mean the forums now have a more accurate internal clock compared to my Windows 7?

Depends on whether or not your Win7 syncs up. I think most computers do nowadays.

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minam

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

I just checked and it was synced.

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TaskManager

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

bump because this seems to be a thing again
the forum time falls behind by roughly 2 minutes and 10ish seconds
edit: actually 30 seconds
edit2: ok actually 20 seconds for sure now

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daneeko

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

huh, never noticed

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peace

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

test

EDIT 17:43:54 whil emy pc time shows 17:46

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Different55

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

Clock drifted by 139.234743 sec so TaskManager wins the prize there, it's back on track now. Must have forgotten to actually enable the NTP service last time.

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

huh, never noticed

I never even noticed this topic
well it was uploaded on august, by summer I was always marking topics as read whenever I came back from vacations
Edit: time displays correctly for me

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

No it doesn't.

Seems I have the same issue

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Different55

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

You don't have the same issue my time is flawless now. If the time is off in hours then set your time zone in your profile. This problem was the time being off in minutes.

EDIT: See, flawless

 9 Nov 13:01:09 ntpdate[25793]: adjust time server 69.89.207.99 offset 0.000383 sec

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peace

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

also diff arnewt there a few time zones that have like +9:30 (from GMT+0 seen ofc) i think there are a few contrys which also have 30 minute time zones..

EDIT time fixed

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

Well, that sure explains why my level was denied in Kirby's contest.

Different55

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Re: forum time 5 minutes off from actual time?

also @everyone who is posting just to see the post time, stop. you can see what the forums believe is the current time in your profile, in the "Time Format" section.

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