August 21, 2002, 06:32
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Apolyton CS Co-Founder
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Local Time
look under my registration date on this post
LT=Local Time
new!
no click on my local time!
Last edited by MarkG; August 22, 2002 at 03:22.
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August 21, 2002, 06:34
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Yeah, I just noticed, cool man!
It seems to be four minutes behind though...
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August 21, 2002, 06:36
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King
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Blame your computer clock.  Seven behind here. 
Interesting addon.
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August 21, 2002, 06:36
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Yeah, four behind. But very nice feature! 
And according to my DSL server, my clock is accurate to the second.
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August 21, 2002, 06:38
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Apolyton CS Co-Founder
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should it be "LT" or "lt" ?
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August 21, 2002, 06:41
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I'd say "lt".
Otherwise it overshadows the join date.
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August 21, 2002, 06:42
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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.
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August 21, 2002, 06:45
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Oooo. Very useful.  
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August 21, 2002, 06:48
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Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov
Blame your computer clock.
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...which is set to an atomic clock 
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August 21, 2002, 07:38
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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.
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August 21, 2002, 07:40
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Apolyton CS Co-Founder
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my initial thought was that it could be usefull for the MP forums...
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August 21, 2002, 07:59
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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  ?
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August 21, 2002, 08:09
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Deity
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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?
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August 21, 2002, 09:03
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my initial thought was that it could be usefull for the MP forums...
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ah, with civ3:PtW coming, that's really a great idea.
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August 21, 2002, 09:07
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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.
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August 21, 2002, 09:20
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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.
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August 21, 2002, 09:26
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Deity
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The MP gang wil love it.
Between sigs, flags, and local time, you get a nice snapshot of posters.
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August 21, 2002, 09:29
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I would have prefered this placed in profile or something.
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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.
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August 21, 2002, 09:35
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Would 'local time' not be more intresting ?
Or local time of member ?
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August 21, 2002, 09:53
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Originally posted by SABRA
Would 'local time' not be more intresting ?
Or local time of member ?
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Err...that's what it is... 
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August 21, 2002, 10:10
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Just another peon
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should be great for the MPers.
Rich
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August 21, 2002, 10:21
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King
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Originally posted by CyberShy
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I would have prefered this placed in profile or something.
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Don't say it'll take extra bandwidth, since those few digits won't.
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Considering that I'm on a 56K dialup that's always connected to 12Kbps because of the crummy phone lines.... yes.
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August 21, 2002, 10:24
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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.
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August 21, 2002, 10:37
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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.
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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.
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August 21, 2002, 10:44
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Nah, keep them running on Unix 
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August 21, 2002, 10:44
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Prince
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Can you imagine how much downtime there would be if the server ran on Windows?
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August 21, 2002, 11:09
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Originally posted by Solver
Or maybe you can have it use ntp, too?
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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.
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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.
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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
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August 21, 2002, 11:12
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Oh, forgot to say that I'm pleased with this new little feature. Hopefully there's more to come. 
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August 21, 2002, 11:13
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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?
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August 21, 2002, 11:15
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do you think some people will pick there favorite time like they did flags?
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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......
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