I got a quick response to my note to DreamHost (my hosting company) about the timekeeping problem mentioned previously. They updated the time on the server I use, so now my Fringe schedule timestamp should be reasonably accurate. I still wonder why they didn’t have it synchronized, or notice the synchronization had failed. NTP is pretty easy to set up and maintain. But kudos to them for the quick fix to my admittedly low-priority problem.