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Originally Posted by Roa_Aoife
If we go with real time, we have no way of knowing whose clock says what. I know for a fact from Nogrod's posts about time that my clock is 3 minutes faster than his.
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Usually, in your computer, at least on Windows, one can synchronise, resp. even actualise the synchronisation in the clock setting window. When you are connected to the internet, the computer of course does that from time to time itself. And I would presume the synchronised time to be the same.
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The Down's clock is a universal standard that is easy for everyone to see, and with each post being time-stamped, it's even easier to compare to the Downs clock to see which votes made it by deadline. Otherwise we could have arguments starting, "Well my clock said it was 10:56 GMT! My vote should count!" and so on and so forth. Using the Downs Clock avoids this kind of thing all together.
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I think it was good note what
Nog said that we cannot be sure which direction the Downs Clock is gonna go - tomorrow, it may show 6 PM at 4 AM or who knows. Besides, if
Nog is going to go with
Mac's idea and be somewhat tolerant as he said (and also us players can help it a little by at least once trying to vote earlier *cough cough*), I can see no problem with someone posting after DL.
Besides, there was often someone who posted late, even when the clock was okay, and on the other hand, I am sure there were times when the clock was not okay but no one had any problem. I think we may be making too much off a fuss of nothing (so I should shut up, right
).