[LINK] If a clock ticks in a Klearphelled forest, ...

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:52 AM 31/03/2008, Roger Clarke wrote:
>At 10:26 +1000 31/3/08, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>  ... My computer also flipped, so I had to fix that.  ...
>
>Yes, we'd noticed, because the thread was turning up in the mailbox 
>out of order  (:-)}

really? or are you joking

>But that's odd.
>
>Surely standard time-synch utilities on MS work as well as they do on Macs?

I think MS Windows has DST changes built in. It's now saying 4.13 on 
my laptop. I hope something close to that is what is appearing on my 
message as sent.

Interestingly, the program guide for ABC2 [the digital channel] is 
still out by an hour, but ABC1 is correct.

There was an episode on CSI where the time stamp on an ATM receipt 
was an hour different from the timestamp on the security tape on the 
same ATM. Came down to the clock attached to one or the other was 
based on a national standard that hadn't caught up yet.

Jan



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