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My guess... temporal vortex. Interesting problem, though. --- Chris Howie Web Developer Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) Michigan State University Wells Hall, Suite B-380 619 Red Cedar Road East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 Direct Phone: (517) 884-0794 Schedule a meeting with me: click here <https://howiecha.youcanbook.me/> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Al Puzzuoli <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Noticing an anomaly here. I’m syncing our domain controller’s time with > the us.pool.ntp.org time server. For years, when I got reminders, they > would pop up on my phone and computer at the exact same second; but > recently, I started to notice discrepancies of a few seconds between the > two. When I studied the issue more closely, I realized that the time on my > Verizon iPhone and workstation were a few seconds off. To make matters even > more confusing, I brought a user with an AT&T iPhone into the mix. His > phone was doing its own thing, the time didn’t agree with either my Verizon > iPhone or with my computer. At this point, I was getting quite befuddled. > The more devices I looked at, the less certain I became about just exactly > what time it was. I placed a call to the NIST time service at 303-499-7111. > Long story short, the NIST broadcast coincided perfectly with the time on > my computer; but both phones were off by a few seconds, and didn’t even > agree with each other. Both phones are set to obtain time automatically > from their respective providers. Any idea what could be going on? I would > think the carriers would be pretty diligent about their time servers? > > Al Puzzuoli > > Information Technologist > > Michigan State University, > > Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, 120 Bessey Hall East > Lansing, MI 48824-1033 > > 517-884-1915 > > http://www.rcpd.msu.edu >