Ebay official time

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Posted By: Lentel

Anyone know how to find the official time on ebay? I know this isnt a vintage question but I know someone here will have the answer
thanks

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Posted By: Bill Cornell

http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?TimeShow

Found on the "Site Map" page.

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Posted By: Dave

I've often wondered about this, but always tested it in the following way:

I watch a particular item that I'm interested in. I also watch the clock in my task bar - lower left.

When I see a change of the minute on my PC, I hit refresh. The time remaining and the end time on ebay tell me how close my PC time is to ebay's time. It seems that I'm about 2 seconds off. I don't know if I did something special to get that close, but I have synchronized with NIST (offical US clock) at the following site:

http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Pacific/d/-8/java

This is for the Pacific time zone, it can be adjusted for others. I think this is really close to ebay time.


Dave

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Posted By: Lentel

Appreciate it!