because Windows keeps jacking my clock

Of course the real solution is to eliminate the Windows partition altogether--and if I was done with school, that'd be acceptable.

Instead, here's a Ruby time synchronization hack/work-around I'll place in my startup script.

#!/bin/ruby                                                                                                                                                                                             
require 'net/http'                                                                                                                                                                                      
require 'date'                                                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
proxy_addr=ENV['http_proxy'].split(/:/)[1].split('/')[2]                                                                                                                                                
proxy_port=80                                                                                                                                                                                           
#handle the case when the proxy_addr is null                                                                                                                                                            
date=nil                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
while(date == nil)                                                                                                                                                                                      
#fetch date                                                                                                                                                                                           
begin                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_addr,proxy_port).start('www.google.com') {|http|                                                                                                                             
 http.read_timeout = 1                                                                                                                                                                               
 http.open_timeout = 1                                                                                                                                                                               
 p = http.request_head('/')                                                                                                                                                                          
 puts p['content-type']                                                                                                                                                                              
 puts p['date']                                                                                                                                                                                      
 date = p['date']                                                                                                                                                                                    
 }                                                                                                                                                                                                   
rescue                                                                                                                                                                                                
 puts "is net connected?"                                                                                                                                                                            
end                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
#set date                                                                                                                                                                                             
if(date != nil)                                                                                                                                                                                       
 puts date                                                                                                                                                                                           
 datetime = DateTime.parse(date)                                                                                                                                                                     
 puts datetime                                                                                                                                                                                       
 mst = (datetime.new_offset(-0.25) )                                                                                                                                                                 
 #will need to determine if this is during daylight savings or not and adjust fraction accordingly                                                                                                   
 puts mst                                                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 #parse and format for posix                                                                                                                                                                     
 dates = mst.to_s.split('-')                                                                                                                                                                         
 times = dates.to_s.split(":")                                                                                                                                                                       
 finalDate = dates[1]                                                                                                                                                                                
 finalDate += dates[2][0,2]                                                                                                                                                                          
 finalDate += times[0][9,11]                                                                                                                                                                         
 finalDate += times[1]                                                                                                                                                                               
 finalDate += dates[0]                                                                                                                                                                               
 puts finalDate                                                                                                                                                                                      
 `date #{finalDate}`                                                                                                                                                                                 
end                                                                                                                                                                                                   
sleep(1)                                                                                                                                                                                              
end