Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

[pozorvlak]

I just noticed that my clock stopped forty minutes ago. "Hang on, it can't still be twenty-five past four!" I thought to myself, before looking at my watch and confirming that no, it was five past five.

The weird thing is that this isn't an analogue clock we're talking about. It's the time readout in the corner of my Windows taskbar¹. Clicking on it to bring up the calendar reveals that the computer knows fine well what time it really is, but for some reason it hasn't updated the display for nearly three quarters of an hour.

Weird.

¹ Yes: I, a confirmed *nix elitist, have to use Windows at work. Laugh all you want. If you're wondering how I cope, the answer is "Firefox, cygwin and XMing".

Comments

[necaris.livejournal.com]

That is enormously odd. What other things did you have in your system tray / taskbar? Could they have been getting in the way?

I have to use Windows at work too :S It's a pain, but at least there is Firefox. And I've got a couple of scripting languages on here as well so little sys-admin tasks aren't as horrendous as they would otherwise be without a real shell.

[rossblog.livejournal.com]

Ever get anywhere with that binary clock? I'm buggered if I can.

We never got round to updating our alarm clock so it's been an hour fast all winter. It was finally correct when we switched back to BST, and almost immediately there was a power cut, so now it thinks it's 00:00 in flashing digits, all the time. Sooner or later I'm going to have to get up and go over there. Tch.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

The binary clock's working fine, though I still have to spend a couple of seconds puzzling it out each time. It's fun to watch the pretty patterns the lights make, though.