[JIRA] (JENKINS-13671) Accurev cannot synctime on mac slaves

[pjdar...@java.net (JIRA)]

pjdarton commented on JENKINS-13671 Accurev cannot synctime on mac slaves One gets similar problems on Windows Vista & Windows 7 etc (any version with UAC) - only an admin (or root) user can set the time - accurev's solution was only a cludge to workaround clock problems when there's no decent network service available, which is highly unlikely these days. The solution I used was to keep the slaves clocks' in sync with the server using the Windows Time Service (which requires a lot of registry settings to convince it to stay within a second or 3 of the server's time, but is possible). Users who have unix could use ntpd to much better effect (as ntpd is much better than WTS, as it can easily keep within a few milliseconds of the server's time, rather than struggling to stay within a few seconds) and that has a far less disruptive effect than setting the time. The proposed fix would be an improvement to the plugin, but I don't think that fixing accurev's synctime feature is the solution to the underlying problem - a better solution is not to need accurev's feature

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