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Clock sync ritual before London: petty but it matters

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LondonScalper
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Clock sync ritual before London: petty but it matters

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Clock sync ritual before London -- petty, and it has saved arguments with my own journal.

Order timestamps, screenshot filenames, and "what time did that reject happen" fall apart if the OS clock drifts. I have reviewed weeks where my notes and the statement disagreed by a minute or two -- enough to mis-tag news blackouts.

Ritual (sixty seconds)
1. Sync OS clock (NTP) before the session.
2. Glance platform server time vs local.
3. Note any offset in the journal header for the day.

Petty? Yes. Cheaper than rebuilding a dispute pack from mismatched times. Also makes latency experiments less fictional.

Do you hard-sync daily, or only after you have already been burned once?

VPS clocks drift too. If you execute remotely, sync or verify server time in the same ritual. I have seen journal debates that were really two machines politely disagreeing about when NFP printed. Sixty seconds of hygiene prevents an hour of false strategy conclusions.
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