Site clock !

[Chasing Caseys]

Is the time on this site an hour fast or am i still an hour slow ! My last posting time said 10.50 and it should have been GMT 9.50 (21.50) I suppose this one will say 10.57 instead of 9.57 !

Confused

Tracey

just checked it says 11.07 !

[Mark]

The time on the site is wrong ... and has been for weeks if not months. Don't worry about it.

Mark

[Chasing Caseys]

Thanks

I was begining to wonder if this site was based abroad !

[get2BJ]

Tracey and Mark

I have copied and pasted this message from another recent thread (about Easter Bonnets of all things!):

"Re the clock, with me it's about 53 minutes fast and I keep getting nasty shocks when I think I've missed my dinner or an appointment! Unfortunately, you won't be able to do the same as I did, as you're in Australia and I'm in the UK, but you might be able to *fish* it out!

User CP
Edit options
Scroll to Date & time options
Time Zone
Leave as GMT W. Europe time, London etc.
DST Correction option
DST corrections always OFF
Click Save Changes or whatever at the bottom of the page.

This will all change though when UK clocks go back in the Autumn!"


Following the advice here, my site clock is now only 7 minutes fast! Yippee!!
Brenda

[mary elms]

When you stop getting confused you get used to it - after a while. You might like to look at this thread for previous thoughts on the subject -

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=12449#poststop

And if like Diane you wish it to say the right time you try something like this



Re the clock, with me it's about 53 minutes fast and I keep getting nasty shocks when I think I've missed my dinner or an appointment! Unfortunately, you won't be able to do the same as I did, as you're in Australia and I'm in the UK, but you might be able to *fish* it out!

User CP
Edit options
Scroll to Date & time options
Time Zone
Leave as GMT W. Europe time, London etc.
DST Correction option
DST corrections always OFF
Click Save Changes or whatever at the bottom of the page.

This will all change though when UK clocks go back in the Autumn!
__________________
Best Wishes,
Diane

Mary.

[Chasing Caseys]

Hi Brenda

Im in the UK and i think i will just remember that its fast !!

Thanks
Tracey

[get2BJ]

Tracey, go for it girl... it really is simple to change these settings!

Mary, great minds think alike!

Brenda

[Chasing Caseys]

Not after half a bottle of wine !!

(Well 3/4 )

[Mark]

Changing your user settings might reduce the apparent error slightly ... but the fact is that the "clock" is wrong. It's not just that it's an hour out due to GMT/BST (aka Daylight Savings).

Mark

[mary elms]

I may be wrong but it seems not only to be wrong but to be slipping slowly further away from the right time

As someone who doesn't wear a watch I enjoy this particular quirk! :D

Mary.

[Chasing Caseys]

Good job i dont set my alarm by it or i would be early for work !

[Rod Neep]

I may be wrong but it seems not only to be wrong but to be slipping slowly further away from the right time

As someone who doesn't wear a watch I enjoy this particular quirk!

Mary.It has virtually never been correct. And yes, it slips further from relality every day. (A bit like me really :) )

And like you... I actually enjoy this little quirk. It gives folks something to write about every so often. So I leave it as it is.
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Cheers
Rod

[Geoffers]

it slips further from relality every day. (A bit like me really)Rod, when the speling gose, you relaly are slippnig from relality.

If you will excuse me now, I have to go away with these two men in white coats

Geoffers

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

I may be wrong but it seems not only to be wrong but to be slipping slowly further away from the right time

As someone who doesn't wear a watch I enjoy this particular quirk! :D

Mary.
Hi Mary,
I think the forum clock was about 30 minutes fast when I first joined, so I had noticed that it was 'running faster' these days!
However, as Rod told us a while ago, it's a problem in the software (I think!) and it doesn't bother most people. He also said that it proved that BG Forums 'was way ahead of all its rival forums' or words to that effect, which I totally agree with.

[AnnB]

If you will excuse me now, I have to go away with these two men in white coats

Geoffers
Be very careful what you say to the nice men, there are a lot of people out in the big wide world, who seem to think people like 'us' have already got a screw or two loose. I hope they are going to let you out every now and again so that you can catch up on the Forum :eek:
Keep taking the tablets
Ann

[Geoffers]

Be very careful what you say to the nice men, there are a lot of people out in the big wide world, who seem to think people like 'us' have already got a screw or two loose. I hope they are going to let you out every now and again so that you can catch up on the Forum !:eek:
Ann
You are quite clearly too young to remember, but those of a certain age who can cast their minds back to the 1960's may remember the single (by Napoloen XIV?), all together now.....

"They're coming to take me away, ha-ha, he-he, ho-ho............."

singed
Mostly harmless of Charlbury

[AnnB]

Dear Most Harmless of Charlbury

It is most gentlemanly of you to assume I am too young to remember, but I'm afraid I can remember the whole 'chorus' (but the rest of it escapes me)

They're coming to take me away, ha ha,
They're coming to take me away, ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time,
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats
They're coming to take me away, ha ha!

Trouble is, now you've gone and got me singing it in my head (please don't let me sing it out loud :o ) and I know it's going to be there for the rest of the day at least - ta very much :rolleyes:

Also singed
Ann

[Ladkyis]

BUT but, but, I am not mad or eccentric or batty or any of those things I am perfectly sane and normal it's the rest of the world that is out of step. Look! can you see, the sky is Bloooooooo! I don't know what colour it is in "their " world but in mine it is BLOOO.

Ann
(actually we have just squelched back from a brief holiday in Suffolk where it rained on us with just enough force to make us wet but not enough to make us give up hope of fine weather so thesky there was grey)

[Chasing Caseys]

Im begining to worry about you lot !!
How did this go from the clock being wrong to bad songs !

Tracey

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

Im begining to worry about you lot !!
How did this go from the clock being wrong to bad songs !

Tracey
It's because we're all slightly batty and keep rambling on! :D

[Mythology]

Only *slightly* batty, Diane? I like to think I'm a bit dafter than that!

You've heard this, but for the benefit of others, I still reckon my sister takes the biscuit though. She's younger than me, would doubtless be "49" on a census return - or maybe 48 because that doesn't look so suspicious. She and hubby recently sold the house and bought a houseboat. She's trundling along the River Trent on holiday, but hubby is still working. If he can't get hold of her on the mobile, the poor fellow now has no idea where "home" has moved to since he left for work that morning.

That'll teach him to marry one of my lot! :D

[Chasing Caseys]

Did someone mention men in white coats earlier !