ahhh, the time zone button. I assumed it was only for time zones. bad me

I switched it to UTC and no GMT and the clock seems to have caught up. danke...

edit: I had to change it back to the New York time zone but the seconds are correct now.
Yes, I think timezone is for timezones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timezonelol... yes Melodie, but the UTC setting is at the bottom of the time zones list and somehow switching to UTC, then back to the New York time zone fixed my clock being off 23 seconds.
