Out of sync

My laptop clock has gone rogue. At first, I thought it was NTP issues, maybe a sync bug. But this isn’t drift — it jumps. Back by exactly 11 minutes, forward by 22. Every time. Perfectly consistent.

The system logs show nothing. BIOS time is steady. No malware scans pick up anything unusual.

But I noticed something else. When the clock jumps, I hear a faint burst of static in my headphones — even if I’m not playing music. It’s not white noise, either. It has a rhythm. A pulse.

I recorded one jump, slowed it down. The pulse almost sounded like… Morse code. But before I could decode it, the file corrupted. Convenient.

I can’t help but think: if they can tamper with time on my machine, what’s stopping them from tampering with my memories? If timestamps don’t mean anything, then history is malleable. Erasable. Rewritable. Just like us.

Log fragment:

[08/02/2021 23:18]  
SYSTEM TIME: 22:57 -> 22:46 -> 23:08  
AUDIO: static burst detected  
STATUS: file corrupted after save  

Someone — or something — is rewriting my time. If this log changes, they’ve already found the blog.