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  • chickeneater
    Digital Video Expert
    Digital Video Expert
    • Apr 2002
    • 672

    To admin: about the clock

    I have noticed that the clock on this forum is slow by 7 minutes, according to time.gov where it is the most accurate. This clock makes me(and others) get confused. Is there any way this can you can synchronize with time.gov?
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  • gd_nimrod
    Moderator
    • Nov 2002
    • 1128

    #2
    Hmmm... i noticed that too the past couple of days, but it wasn't like that before. Maybe they switched servers for a while and that made the time delayed...
    Did you know you can SEARCH the forum? Fixes common problems too:
    http://forum.digital-digest.com/search.php

    Also search on the whole Digital-Digest website:
    http://www.digital-digest.com/search.html

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    • admin
      Administrator
      • Nov 2001
      • 8917

      #3
      I have made changes to the clock - I think I've made changes before, but forgot to update the hardware clock while I did it - so everytime a reboot occured, the "slow" clock was back in action.
      Visit Digital Digest and dvdloc8.com, My Blog

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      • chickeneater
        Digital Video Expert
        Digital Video Expert
        • Apr 2002
        • 672

        #4
        thank you very much . It works!
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        • chickeneater
          Digital Video Expert
          Digital Video Expert
          • Apr 2002
          • 672

          #5
          OK. I noticed that the clock is off more every week. it said 3:39 when it really was 3:41. That was just after I refreshed the page too. Maybe you could put a synchronizer on the clock???
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          • admin
            Administrator
            • Nov 2001
            • 8917

            #6
            I have added a cron job to change the system time to match a public time server ... that should solve the problem
            Visit Digital Digest and dvdloc8.com, My Blog

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            • Batman
              Lord of Digital Video
              Lord of Digital Video
              • Jan 2002
              • 2317

              #7
              Glad to see everything's running on time

              I don't pay too much attention to the clock, but it's always good to be up-to-date.

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              • coro
                Junior Member
                Junior Member
                • Feb 2003
                • 15

                #8
                how do you do this

                public time server

                How do you do this and what is the settings of it.

                Thanks

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                • toysys
                  Old Guy
                  • Sep 2002
                  • 20

                  #9
                  Time

                  Here is a starting place... http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ctime.html
                  There are hundreds of free client software packages for all systems (MS, Unex, Linux, etc.)

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                  • coro
                    Junior Member
                    Junior Member
                    • Feb 2003
                    • 15

                    #10
                    thanks

                    Thanks for that i have been looking for something like that for a long time.

                    Ck

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                    • toysys
                      Old Guy
                      • Sep 2002
                      • 20

                      #11
                      You are most welcome. If you do a search on Google you could spend days reading on this topic.

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                      • techno
                        Digital Video Master
                        Digital Video Master
                        • Nov 2001
                        • 1309

                        #12
                        tick tock..tick tock

                        cool ppl like these are really needed and care about things like this well done

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                        • chickeneater
                          Digital Video Expert
                          Digital Video Expert
                          • Apr 2002
                          • 672

                          #13
                          This is great. I just got my linux box set up a few weeks ago, and there was this program called "xearth" and It is a rotating satellite (3d) image of the earth and it adjusts every 5 minutes. It is really interesting to sit at my dinner table and think that It is noon in australia... Just by looking at that earth. I just found out that they have a windows version of it, so I can use it on my windows box. Since this site is VERY international, I think that it would be great if people had the earth on there desktop and see where people are, and what time they are in... If any of you are interested, go to google and search for "xearth for windows" or whatever OS you are running. It supports many OS's and is freeware.
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                          • toysys
                            Old Guy
                            • Sep 2002
                            • 20

                            #14
                            xearth

                            chickeneater:
                            Been using this program for 18 months now. The only problem with the windows version is that the "wallpapaper" doesn't refresh on it's own like the Linux version. You can also insert your own markers (e.g. your home town). All in all it's very nice. Been meaning to see if the author (Windows version) wouldn't put in the code to refresh the window. I believe there is an API call to do just that.

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                            • One Tin Soldier
                              Junior Member
                              Junior Member
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 10

                              #15
                              Hi there chickeneater,

                              I have been a Linux fan for a long time, and so I am familiar with xearth. It is a pretty cool app. I didn't know they made a Windoze version. Cool, I'll go grab it. But, if you think xearth is cool, then you should check out XPlanet. It's even better! I don't know that there is a Windoze version of this program. XPlanet also has an OpenGL render mode and when in this render mode it can be put into Windowed mode if you like, rather than displaying on your root window(desktop). But anyway, you really need to download the Hi-Res images that are available for it on the web to get the awesome look on your desktop that XPlanet is capable of. For the most part the Hi-Res images available are, daytime earth, nightime earth, clouds, the moon, and mars. Also, get the gui front-end for it, it's called something like TkPlanet. Forget the exact name at the moment, but it's a great gui to go with a great app!

                              Cheers

                              3.06 Ghz Intel P4 on Asus P4T533-C, 1 GB 1066 Samsung RDRAM, NEC MultiSync FE2111SB 22" Monitor, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Videocard, Creative Audigy2 Soundcard, 120 GB w/8 MB Cache Western Digital HD, 36 GB Seagate 15,000 RPM SCSI HD, WinXP Pro SP1, Debian(Sid a.k.a unstable)/GNU Linux 2.4.21-pre4-ac4 EXT3(on the SCSI HD).
                              Last edited by One Tin Soldier; 11 Mar 2003, 04:38 PM.

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