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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Hash., May 10, 2014.

  1. Hash.

    Hash. pure daycent

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    One tenth of an hour , six minutes is the name of a rap song by snoop dogg also, six minutes added time is a thing of the past since slur alcopop retired.


    My point is more a question though

    Why the **** is the site clock six minutes fast ?
     
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  2. Toby

    Toby GC's Life Coach

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    Because Mick is a fat ginger oirish Tory *****cunt <ok>
     
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  3. ManDingo 20"/20"

    ManDingo 20"/20" MDMA Guru

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    The amount of time it takes a minutes silence to end in Liverpool.
     
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  4. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    I'm no master of thermodynamics, but I reckon it's the heat in the server rack making the clock edge forward. Either that or German clocks are different to ours.
     
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  5. brb

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    It's a conspiracy Hash, Mick places us six minutes into the future so that if **** kick's off he can take us back six minutes to a parallel dimension.
     
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  6. Deleted 1

    Deleted 1 Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    I just assumed that was the time difference between here and the Isle of Man........
     
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  7. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    That's about 30 years.
     
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  8. Hugh Briss

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    Learn here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/
     
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  9. ManDingo 20"/20"

    ManDingo 20"/20" MDMA Guru

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  10. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    It's the same as the Long Con used in the Hollywood Movie, The Sting, Eddie's hacked the server and adjusted the clocks.

    Eddie gives us a tip and when we go to bet on it we find the race finished 5 minutes ago.
     
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  11. stopmeandslapme

    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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    Can you not set the clock on the server to synchronise once per day?
     
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  12. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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  13. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    ...or this site is incorrectly handling timestamps.
     
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  14. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    <laugh>.
     
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  15. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    <laugh>.
     
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  16. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    No, he has no access to the clock on the server. The server is the property of the hosting company.
     
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  17. stopmeandslapme

    stopmeandslapme Well-Known Member

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    Yes I expect that is the case though maybe he can log on to it remotely. He could ask support of the hosts to do it.
     
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  18. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs Staff Member

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    Aye a do - it's a dedicated box, I can change the time if I want. There's probably a script somewhere to sync it every day, I'm just too lazy to find it and set up a cron job for it.
     
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  19. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    He can log on remotely to services allowed by the hosting company and ****ing with the server's clock ain't one of them.

    There is nothing wrong with the clock on the server.

    There is nothing wrong with the timestamp handling on this site. So what if it's a few minutes adrift? The scripts used on this site are not time critical and were not designed to be. Why would they?
     
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  20. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    I stand corrected. I assumed shared hosting.

    Maybe there is a shell script to allow you to adjust the clock. So what? If ye cron that script it will still be off because it will be cron'ed off by 6 minutes. And confuse cron. You'll turn your server into a time machine <laugh>
     
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