Server clocks
Server clocks
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ewenm

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28,506 posts

274 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Assuming PH is hosted across multiple instances, is one of the clocks slightly in the future? Some posts are timestamped 5 mins ahead (Highway Star's latest post in the Debris on Road thread for example). It means the "My Stuff" and "What's New" pages lie to me wink

Nothing major.
Cheers,
E.

V8mate

45,899 posts

218 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Ah! I have noticed that several threads won't go to non-bold i.e. all posts read, in 'My Stuff' yesterday and today.

This could be the cause?

ewenm

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Wednesday 14th July 2010
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V8mate said:
Ah! I have noticed that several threads won't go to non-bold i.e. all posts read, in 'My Stuff' yesterday and today.

This could be the cause?
That's what suggested it to me too...

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Is it still doing it? It all looks okay here at the moment...

ewenm

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Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Occasionally and not consistently (aren't they the best problems! wink).

will_'s 11:10 post in the Caterham or Elise thread was doing it.

ewenm

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Wednesday 14th July 2010
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And my 11:26 post in this thread: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

I make it 11:24 now...

Mr Will

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235 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Interesting...

The clocks were in sync when I first checked, but now seem to be out of sync again. That's definitely the cause, now I just need to work out why it is happening.


ZOLLAR

19,920 posts

202 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Mr Will said:
Interesting...

The clocks were in sync when I first checked, but now seem to be out of sync again. That's definitely the cause, now I just need to work out why it is happening.
I hope it isn't anything to do with my fiddling with the URL this morning boxedin

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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ZOLLAR said:
Mr Will said:
Interesting...

The clocks were in sync when I first checked, but now seem to be out of sync again. That's definitely the cause, now I just need to work out why it is happening.
I hope it isn't anything to do with my fiddling with the URL this morning boxedin
Ah, so it was you that broke it!

ZOLLAR

19,920 posts

202 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Mr Will said:
ZOLLAR said:
Mr Will said:
Interesting...

The clocks were in sync when I first checked, but now seem to be out of sync again. That's definitely the cause, now I just need to work out why it is happening.
I hope it isn't anything to do with my fiddling with the URL this morning boxedin
Ah, so it was you that broke it!
yikes runs away to the secret room....

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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It's not that secret...

ZOLLAR

19,920 posts

202 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Mr Will said:
It's not that secret...
Aww and i felt special.....

rfn

4,607 posts

236 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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It's a bit broken again - 2 to 3 minutes out by the looks of things.

PintOfKittens

1,336 posts

219 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Mr Will said:
Interesting...

The clocks were in sync when I first checked, but now seem to be out of sync again. That's definitely the cause, now I just need to work out why it is happening.
We had this problem a few years ago, we forced windows to sync time (to nist I think it was) every 24 hours, seemed to do the trick thumbup

rfn

4,607 posts

236 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Scary just read a post posted at 14:35, yet my PC thinks it is 14:31..

dilbert

7,741 posts

260 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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I've been playing with this stuff recently.
You can get a full on NTP server for not much dosh, either GPS or MSF.

Being a skinflint, I built my own radio receiver, but you can buy them for about £200.

PintOfKittens

1,336 posts

219 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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dilbert said:
I've been playing with this stuff recently.
You can get a full on NTP server for not much dosh, either GPS or MSF.

Being a skinflint, I built my own radio receiver, but you can buy them for about £200.
If they are internet connected, if you dont need super duper accuracy, just point it to one of the nist servers - http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi ?

ewenm

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274 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Munter at 14:48 said:
Definitely going on. Posts that were not there previously appearing in the middle of threads and all sorts of time warps.
And your post is from the future too (14:45 here).

BliarOut

72,863 posts

268 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Point them all at pool.ntp.org or run an internal NTP server?

Munter

31,331 posts

270 months

Wednesday 14th July 2010
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Definitely going on. Posts that were not there previously appearing in the middle of threads and all sorts of time warps.