21-08-2002 15:32									#1
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look under my registration date on this post

LT=Local Time

new!
no click on my local time!

Last edited by MarkG on 22-08-2002 at 12:22

	21-08-2002 15:34									#2
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Yeah, I just noticed, cool man!

It seems to be four minutes behind though...

	21-08-2002 15:36									#3
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Blame your computer clock. Seven behind here.

Interesting addon.

	21-08-2002 15:36									#4
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Yeah, four behind. But very nice feature!

And according to my DSL server, my clock is accurate to the second.

	21-08-2002 15:38									#5
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should it be "LT" or "lt" ?

	21-08-2002 15:41									#6
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I'd say "lt".
Otherwise it overshadows the join date.

	21-08-2002 15:42									#7
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I think it should read 'Time', since I couldn't figure out what it means, before you told me. (And I'm sure most people won't)

is greece one hour ahead of Holland?
Nice feature.

	21-08-2002 15:45									#8
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Oooo. Very useful.

	21-08-2002 15:48									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov Blame your computer clock.

...which is set to an atomic clock

	21-08-2002 16:38									#10
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At first I thought it means: Logged-on-time (e.g. how many hours you are logged-on here) but than I saw I'm 13 hours on and slowly I realized this can't be true.

Well nice feature of course so you can begin to guess where people come from (comparing their timezone with yours). It’s a nice game you can play in your coffee-break it’s lot of fun.

	21-08-2002 16:40									#11
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my initial thought was that it could be usefull for the MP forums...

	21-08-2002 16:59									#12
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Oh understand. And I thought you wanted to provide the playful members of this thread (which I count me in) with a new feature to spend their freetime. Is it just my nature that if I see something new I immediately want to play with it or are there some other jokers too ?

	21-08-2002 17:09									#13
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I like it Markos, except that the times are behind. I'm automatically sunchronizing my time with time servers on the Net, and for a long time I've been noticing that the Apolyton forum clock is backwards... care to set it properly? Or maybe you can have it use ntp, too?

	21-08-2002 18:03									#14
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quote: my initial thought was that it could be usefull for the MP forums...

ah, with civ3:PtW coming, that's really a great idea.

	21-08-2002 18:07									#15
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Well I guess it remains to be seen how useful it is. I would have prefered this placed in profile or something. Or maybe just in MP forums (if that is even possible). But for now I will simply ignore it unless it becomes needed.

	21-08-2002 18:20									#16
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I like it out in the open. If someones join date is important enough to be displayed in each post, then their local time is even more important.

	21-08-2002 18:26									#17
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The MP gang wil love it.
Between sigs, flags, and local time, you get a nice snapshot of posters.

	21-08-2002 18:29									#18
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quote: I would have prefered this placed in profile or something.

why would one prefer that?
Does it bother you? I can't see the complain......
Don't say it'll take extra bandwidth, since those few digits won't.

	21-08-2002 18:35									#19
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Would 'local time' not be more intresting ?
Or local time of member ?

	21-08-2002 18:53									#20
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quote: Originally posted by SABRA Would 'local time' not be more intresting ? Or local time of member ?

Err...that's what it is...

	21-08-2002 19:10									#21
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should be great for the MPers.

Rich

	21-08-2002 19:21									#22
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quote: Originally posted by CyberShy quote: I would have prefered this placed in profile or something. Don't say it'll take extra bandwidth, since those few digits won't.

Considering that I'm on a 56K dialup that's always connected to 12Kbps because of the crummy phone lines.... yes.

	21-08-2002 19:24									#23
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More importantly, it looks stupid. But it is useful I guess.

Give it a capital T though... and the forum clock is five minutes slow.

	21-08-2002 19:37									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Immortal Wombat More importantly, it looks stupid. But it is useful I guess. Give it a capital T though... and the forum clock is five minutes slow.

The servers should be upgrade to WinXP, they will dial-up an atomic clock and get the true time. Do this every month or so.

	21-08-2002 19:44									#25
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Nah, keep them running on Unix

	21-08-2002 19:44									#26
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Can you imagine how much downtime there would be if the server ran on Windows?

	21-08-2002 20:09									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Solver Or maybe you can have it use ntp, too?

As settler.apolyton.net runs RedHat Linux, you could easily use one of the many NTP clients available for Linux to automatically synchronise the clock with any good and reliable public NTP server.

quote: Originally posted by Thrawn05 The servers should be upgrade to WinXP, they will dial-up an atomic clock and get the true time. Do this every month or so.

You don't have to use some stinking M$ Windows XP Server or Advanced Server for just synchronising with an NTP server. And the costs for hosting would rise, as those licenses aren't exactly cheap compared to Linux.

I wouldn't and I don't trust that feature too much as it only includes 2 servers to choose from time.windows.net (M$) and time.nist.gov. Those servers aren't necessarily running NTP servers synchronised by an atomic clock. I could set up my server as an NTP server and you would still get lured that I would have an atomic clock.

My suggestion for those who want to synchronise their PC clocks with real atomic clocks, is to use a freeware program called Dimension 4. Very handy and has plenty of servers included. Forget about some time.windows.net! Why not synchronise with an atomic clock at Trinity College?

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4

	21-08-2002 20:12									#28
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Oh, forgot to say that I'm pleased with this new little feature. Hopefully there's more to come.

	21-08-2002 20:13									#29
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If you don't want others to know where you are from you can pick a random time in the control panel, do you think some people will pick there favorite time like they did flags?

	21-08-2002 20:15									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Level do you think some people will pick there favorite time like they did flags?

HEY, now I suddenly get plenty ideas to do with this new feature! Cool!

Markos, can I toy around with it?
And.......uh....... find out if there are leaks......