On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:07:12AM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguy???n wrote > Kent Fredric schrieb: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:21:22 -0400 > > [email protected] wrote: > > > >> I'm amazed that "robust linux servers" are deathly afraid of simply > >> setting the time, and being done with it. > > > > There's problems at the software level everywhere that are not so > > simply solved. > > > > A more obvious example is in the event your system time gets *ahead* of > > real-time. > > And even if the system is behind time, it can cause problems. cronjobs > running unexpectedly close to each other (or missed cronjobs in extreme > cases). User sessions expiring early, etc. > > And even if there is only one second, and that is known well ahead > (e.g. leap seconds): Unless you know that there isn't going to be > a problem, a great deal of care needs to go into handling that.
In that case, the dev machine should be a separate machine from the server. They don't even have to be separate physical machines. Do the dev work in a VM, and set the time in the VM just before doing the push. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
