Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone | Date | Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:31:58 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Ed Vance <EdV@macrolink.com> said: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 5:32 PM, Horst von Brand wrote: > > Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net> said: > > > > [...] > > > > > Real time is still useful, if only as a hint to users. > > > > Lots of things would be useful to have, but you just can't get them. > > There is no guarantee that the clocks of the machines are > > even remotely > > near synchronized (don't get me started on that).
> You mean like my legacy SPARCstation 1+ that runs in 1997 (days of week > match) so my "lifetime" licenses for apps from long ago dead companies don't > "expire" anyway, due to a Y2K bug in the license handler?
I've seen reports of ridiculous bugs in Win98 that make it crash if you try to set our timezone (Chile/Continental), so they run it on UTC and fix up the time for summer/winter, if they even care about the right date (many people just don't bother setting up the clock of their systems). A large site around here had a hard time analyzing a breakin because their server systems were all running on wildly inaccurate clocks, so that correlating logs was a huge pain. For laughs, just check the origin date of the email you get. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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