MetaChat - Time stamp weirdness

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06 April 2006

Time stamp weirdness Why is MeCha's time stamp out of sync with the actual time? My clock now says that it's 14 minutes past the hour.

post by: Frisbee Girl at: 09:58 | 32 comments

(Or has it always been this way and I'm just now figuring it out? This wouldn't be a first.)

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 April | 10:01

It's a conspiracy of ~~cartographers~~ horologists.

posted by Rhomboid 06 April | 10:26

Funny, I thought I'd sorted this out a week or so ago. Clearly not.

posted by dodgygeezer 06 April | 10:27

It hasn't always been that way, it used to be pretty accurately EST, but in the last few weeks the clock has drifted. Maybe metachat needs to be rocking the NTP.

posted by cmonkey 06 April | 10:27

Are Mecha asses so massive that we have created a dense gravity field, distorting time-space in the vicinity of Mecha's servers?

posted by jelly 06 April | 10:28

Nah, it's just that the mecha mansion has it's own time zone. That's all.

posted by richat 06 April | 10:32

richat! whereyabeen?

posted by mike9322 06 April | 10:40

I was outta town on the weekend past, and I have a grandmother who's not doing too well, it's been taking up some time/thoughts. Thanks for missing me though, you handsome thread-strutter you!

posted by richat 06 April | 10:47

I got as far as downloading NTP but then got distracted by something else. I might get round to it tonight or tomorrow. Or the weekend. Or sometime this month. Or something. Maybe tomorrow. Probably.

posted by dodgygeezer 06 April | 10:47

Ah. I noticed your wife posting kid pics to Flickr and deduced that you were out of town, but didn't know why. I am sorry for your grandmother - I wish you and your family all the best.

posted by mike9322 06 April | 10:51

Thanks Mike...she's no spring chicken, but it still sucks. I do appreciate the kind thoughts of the mechazens a lot.

posted by richat 06 April | 11:01

dodgy, to be honest, I wasn't even sure it was a bug. I'm in a bit of painkiller haze at the moment and the thought of the site having its very own 'bunnytime' was pretty amusing.

richat, those pics that Jenny posted, along with the decriptions, were wonderful. So much so that I refrained from commenting because their inherent intimacy was evident. So sorry to hear about your grandmother and warmest of thoughts to you and your family but it's nice to see you back here.

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 April | 11:03

Thanks Fris, and comment away. Comments are like crack to me. I love 'em. Sorry for the derail too. Thankfully this isn't meta*!

posted by richat 06 April | 11:12

I thought it was time delay for standards and practices reasons. If that's not the case, where have all my swears been vanishing to?

posted by PinkStainlessTail 06 April | 11:47

Like that! My previous post said "...where have all my cocking swears been vanishing to?" and now it's fucking cleaned up.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 06 April | 11:48

cocks cocking cocks cock.

cocks cocks cocks cocks cocks cocks cocks

posted by cmonkey 06 April | 11:57

Fucking censor must be eating his flanging lunch.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 06 April | 11:57

What a goddamn cock.

posted by cmonkey 06 April | 12:03

COCK.

posted by mike9322 06 April | 12:05

Damn it, mike, I was going to do the big cock comment.

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 April | 12:09

cocks

posted by cmonkey 06 April | 12:11

God how I wish the blink tag worked.

posted by cmonkey 06 April | 12:11

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by mike9322 06 April | 12:16

peters.

posted by cmonkey 06 April | 12:19

≡ Click to see image ≡≡ Click to see image ≡≡ Click to see image ≡≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by mike9322 06 April | 12:20

HOT AMERICAN DICKINGS!!!!

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 April | 12:30

Don't forget to put your cocks back

posted by dodgygeezer 06 April | 13:04

What's with all this cocking? Jeez people, I mentioned my GRANDMOTHER up there. You are lucky I'm not Irish.

posted by richat 06 April | 13:34

I... love (grand)mother!!

You have seen that right, richat?

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 April | 13:40

I had not, no. What's the deal with Dr. Tran? It's kinda funny.

posted by richat 06 April | 14:31

*wishes she was in a painkiller haze*

posted by deborah 06 April | 14:44

richat, I don't rightly know what exactly the deal is with Dr. Tran. Except that the faux preview tickles the 14 year old in me to no end.

*hugs deborah*

posted by Frisbee Girl 06 April | 16:39

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