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

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