Time Question

[timtrader]

Does the time showing on the bottom right corner of the portfolios and dashboard come from the MT servers or from somewhere else?  It caught my attention today because mine is showing about 5 minutes slow.

 

Thanks,

Tim

 

[Jerry Medved]

it is your system time, synchronized with internet servers. MT regularly does the sync.  It does not change the actual system clock though, just the time it uses in MT.

[timtrader]

Hmmm,  I just updated my Windows 7 time, (using the internet time selection....not much change afterwards ), then I restarted MT.....MT is still showing 5-6 minutes slower than the current time.  Or, did I miss something in you explanation?

 

Thanks,

Tim

[Jerry Medved]

Actually, its the updating that probably caused the problem.  Right now MT syncs every 24 hours and if you change in between it causes a problem since MT remember the difference between your local time and what it synced and continues to use that.

 

I just made it resync if time is changed while MT is running. 

 

Not sure how to handle it if time changed when MT is not running, and still not hit the time sync servers too often. 

[timtrader]

OK, that makes sense.  I've come to depend on that time turning red during the last minute before market open and close.....a very nice feature.

 

Thanks,

Tim