US Navy NTP Server glitch/reset reverts clicks back to year 2000

I mean clocks!! How can I edit thread title?

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No one cares to comment? I find this very interesting and widely disruptive (affected our emails at work yesterday and it team still sorting...seemed messy though)

Its ok they weren't shooting cruise missiles at anyone in 2000 or were they?
Maybe this explains the current missile attacks on Israel from Missiles that resemble something more than a stray firework?

watch leftside your post, "Edit Your Post"

It doesn't take much to cause this.
All it takes is a BIOS update and the usage of Windows Server 2003 as your Time Server Domain Controller and poof... the high-potential exists.

Do u know how I can edit title so i can correct it to clocks?

Thanks but I don't see anything to the left saying edit....maybe cuz I'm not a member I can't change/ it's limited?

High potential pain in the ass!

Kind of weird that there's not much info about this circulating tho eh?

i find it highly suspicious that the us navy needed to restart all of their timeservers simultaneously. i mean, they are used by billions around the globe, and it certainly isn't a single box serving time...

for those who wonder why there is some much fuss on this: the united states navy is the sole authority on internet time; they are the ones who, in practice, decide whether to put in leap seconds or not and such. that gives them immense power to disrupt anything connected to the worldwide internet. luckily, there are plenty of safeguards implemented around this, by third parties.

Yeah... So I wonder what happened yesterday / why they intentionally or accidentally let this happen.

Timewave zero..........

meaning?

mckenna's novelty theory throws causality, and hence linear time, straight out of the window. what relation do you see between coordinated internet time, and timewave zero?