07-02-2002 00:11									#1
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18:57 according to my computer - but its about five minutes slow. The Poly clock say 19:11.

Is there a reason its ahead of time by ~10 minutes?

	07-02-2002 00:42									#2
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I've noticed the apolyton clock running several minutes ahead of my clocks...

	07-02-2002 00:48									#3
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apolyton is ahead of its time

	07-02-2002 00:57									#4
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Maybe it's set about an hour fast each day to compensate for server slowdown. By midnight, it'll be bang on time.

	07-02-2002 01:29									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Paul Hanson Maybe it's set about an hour fast each day to compensate for server slowdown. By midnight, it'll be bang on time.

Either that, or it is a slow preparation for another time-warp

	07-02-2002 01:36									#6
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It's 6 minutes ahead.

	07-02-2002 01:40									#7
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time all over the world is wrong anyways. How is your time right? Do you synchronize it with the atomic clock in Colorado?

And in a related note, how does the U.S. goverment know the atomic clock was set to the right time to begin with? Did they measure the angle the earth was to the sun? How does anyone know what time it is?

	07-02-2002 02:09									#8
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Its so that you look at the 'Poly clock and think "ah crap, I have to go to my lesson now" and get there on time, rather than 5 minutes late.

Until you figure out that that is what's going on...

	07-02-2002 02:30									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident time all over the world is wrong anyways. How is your time right? Do you synchronize it with the atomic clock in Colorado?

Colorado is not the home of time, Greeenwich is. Americo-centrism once again.

quote: And in a related note, how does the U.S. goverment know the atomic clock was set to the right time to begin with? Did they measure the angle the earth was to the sun? How does anyone know what time it is?

Time is arbritrary, but it helps if we have some kind of standardization - therefore we agree to run on the same time +/- hours or half hours. Poly is bucking the trend and created its own time zone.

	07-02-2002 04:00									#10
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the atomic clock is located in the U.S. not Greenwhich.

and this should be obvious. But I will spell it out. You can use that source as an accurate source of time. What you do then is add or subtract hours depending on what time zone you live in. Jeez.

	07-02-2002 04:02									#11
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There's a reason why your timezones are GMT + whatever...

	07-02-2002 04:03									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident the atomic clock is located in the U.S. not Greenwhich. and this should be obvious. But I will spell it out. You can use that source as an accurate source of time. What you do then is add or subtract hours depending on what time zone you live in. Jeez.

That troll was too easy....

	07-02-2002 04:22									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident the atomic clock is located in the U.S. not Greenwhich.

Is it for sale?

	07-02-2002 04:25									#14
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yes they offer it in the advertisements in the backs of magazines.

	07-02-2002 04:25									#15
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so answer me this: what time is it?

	07-02-2002 04:51									#16
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Yeah, I am getting +6 minutes myself. My computer's clock is the only one that stays going when the power goes off, so I base all my other clocks in my apartment on this one here.

-FMK.

	07-02-2002 16:25									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident yes they offer it in the advertisements in the backs of magazines.

I'll buy it for Greenwich then

	07-02-2002 17:22									#18
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I don't know about other versions, but XP updates the system clock every time it goes online - so when I get back to my room, I'll be able to check what is presumably a reasonably reputable time-check.

	07-02-2002 17:31									#19
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I use the sun. It is now. . .




stupid nighttime.

	07-02-2002 19:26									#20
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I make it 14:16, poly makes it 14:24. An 8 minute difference.

Btw - what actually is the point in this thread?

	07-02-2002 23:49									#21
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quote: Is there a reason its ahead of time by ~10 minutes?

	08-02-2002 02:54									#22
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who cares what time it is
I never put my watch on anyway, I just look at the sun, if its in the East its morning , if its in the west its afternoon.

Close enough is good enough

	08-02-2002 03:21									#23
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The clock on my work pc is 7 minutes behind Apolyton. But it is 4 minutes ahead of the clock on my phone, and 9 minutes behind the clock on the tower of city hall.

I agree with Hydey. If the shadows are getting long, it's time to go home! If the eastern sky is pink, my son will soon be demanding breakfast. It's good enough to approximate!

Dissident, it seems like you are fishing for someone to start singing that dumb song "Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?"

	08-02-2002 03:41									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Marquis de Sodaq I agree with Hydey.

Thats never happened before

	08-02-2002 04:07									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Hydey who cares what time it is I never put my watch on anyway, I just look at the sun, if its in the East its morning , if its in the west its afternoon.

I thought the sun rose in the west in the southern hemisphere.

	08-02-2002 04:17									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin I thought the sun rose in the west in the southern hemisphere.

New heights of stupidity are found everyday.

	08-02-2002 04:20									#27
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As too, the inability to see sarcasm.

	08-02-2002 04:23									#28
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Are sarcasm, the lowest form of wit.

	08-02-2002 05:07									#29
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...but the highest form of humour.

	08-02-2002 05:24									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat ...but the highest form of humour.

only for those unable to laugh