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June 09, 2005

Time setting from the future

My laptop keeps getting set to the wrong time. For example, today after I forced a re-synch using XP's built in facility, I got this response:

Wrong time - image capture on June 9, 2005
Note: It's now around 1:45 PM on June 9.

If I set the date correctly and use Windows' own time server instead of NIST's, it gets the time and date right. Is the national timepiece off by six days???

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 9, 2005 01:51 PM

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You should get a Mac.

Posted by: fp | June 9, 2005 05:04 PM

Well, you can check what nist.gov has here:

http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java

(Eastern Daylight Saving Time)

And it appears to be correct, both date and time.

What your showing is off by 5,947 minutes.

Definately strange.

Posted by: Bryan Price | June 9, 2005 10:29 PM

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