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Still better than time.windows.com!
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I never expected to get to post on an article a day before it officially went up.
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Well, it probably doesn't matter to him that the clock runs a few seconds late...
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Back when I was using KDE, about a year ago I think. The sync time with server thing was horribly broken. It would set the time to the incorrect time zone.
And for some reason once it was turned on, it was impossible to turn off. So every time it booted I had to set the correct time. It got so annoying that I switched to a different desktop environment.
That represents my experience with KDE quite well actually. But I did enjoy using KDE. Mostly because it was fun to see it gradually destroy itself.
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I sometimes sync the time on embedded systems (without a hardware clock) by running:
It’s not extremely precise, but it works...
Filed under: And it use three different quotation marks
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It's hilarious because I didn't mean for it to go up tomorrow. The price I pay for setting the publish bit near midnight ;-)
Classic off-by-one error.
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I'll probably regret asking this, but does anyone know why the admin didn't just use
ntp?Admin
Beautiful, simply beautiful! Makes me wonder what else could be abused to get a valid date/time reading?
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I get the feeling that dns probably has a timestamp. Cannot be arsed to check, though.
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Hook up a webcam and OCR the wall clock! Or the news ticker on the TV screen, which usually has a clock somewhere. Or the microwave....the possibilities are infinite.
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Point the webcam at a sundial (on a wooden table, of course)
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Obligatory article about wall clocks being unreliable: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/SyncingSunk
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Paranoid network admin blocking all non-HTTP access to the Internet?
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Well at least It was apparently accessible yesterday, one just had to go through yesterday's post to the bottom. It was sorta half-listed.
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Or just use voice-processing software and call the speaking clock.
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Sounds like time for another OMGWTF contest!
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TRWTF is that default.css has an expires header that expires in a week while the file has not been changed in over a year. That's ineficient use of caching.
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Actually, this is quite a good idea because public NTP servers are sort of a WTF for their importance and how they work. Also, he is using HTTPS, so no worries about MITM attacks.
You don't want to be the guy who DDoS the whole world to its knees.