# SDMB clock drift **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724 "2007-10-31T16:00:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/1 "2007-10-31T16:00:47Z")
The SDMB clock is five minutes ahead of the clocks on my network, which are in sync with [time.gov](http://time.gov) Don’t know if it much matters, but thought I’d let y’all know. /w ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/2 "2007-10-31T16:02:59Z")
Me too - five mins slow. Furthermore, Daylight Saving Time for the UK hasn’t kicked in on the server yet (it commenced at 1am, Sunday 28th Oct). We are now GMT over here, but the clock hasn’t yet updated itself and is still showing us GMT+1. I do have DST settings enabled in my options. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/3 "2007-10-31T16:11:04Z")
Didn’t we have this same thread about 2 weeks ago? ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/4 "2007-10-31T16:29:07Z")
Test post to check time ETA the hour is correct, but seems a little fast minute-wise. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/5 "2007-10-31T16:43:15Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Test post to check time ETA the hour is correct, but seems a little fast minute-wise. [/QUOTE] The time is displayed at the bottom of every page. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/6 "2007-10-31T16:47:44Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] The time is displayed at the bottom of every page. [/QUOTE] Yeah, the time the page was last refreshed. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/7 "2007-10-31T16:55:19Z")
Frigging timeouts! I must confess that I hadn’t noticed the time at the bottom of the page before. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/8 "2007-10-31T16:56:34Z")
Well that’s weird - the log of when a post was made is GMT+1, but the clock at the bottom is at GMT+0. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/9 "2007-10-31T17:02:36Z")
Time is relative here at the Dope. At some point the clock will be reset and we’ll be okay and then it will drift again. Just how it is. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/10 "2007-10-31T17:24:31Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] Time is relative here at the Dope. At some point the clock will be reset and we’ll be okay and then it will drift again. Just how it is. [/QUOTE] What? What clock is this that loses minutes over weeks? Water drips are so BC. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/11 "2007-10-31T17:54:03Z")
Times they are a changin’ 😃 Good one, Huh! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/12 "2007-10-31T18:00:01Z")
[QUOTE=TubaDiva] Time is relative here at the Dope. [/QUOTE] That’s rather Einsteinian isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/13 "2007-10-31T20:04:49Z")
Can we add “-ish” at the end of the timestamps? > [@](#): > > All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:04-ish PM. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/14 "2007-10-31T20:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] What? What clock is this that loses minutes over weeks? Water drips are so BC. [/QUOTE] My old desktop computer would do this. I’d set the time, and as little as a week later it would be several minutes off. I think it went fast, but I don’t remember for sure (I haven’t used it in over 3 years). It was slightly annoying, but it didn’t seem to cause any other problems other than the occasional “wtf? What time is it???” panics. If it affected the computer itself… well, it was already running Win98, so it couldn’t get much worse, could it! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/15 "2007-11-01T17:49:11Z")
I think I read a thread about this later tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-clock-drift/424724/16 "2007-11-01T18:37:36Z")
As of right now, the clock is back in sync. Nice job, Jerry (or whomever did whatever).