On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:10:05PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2008-06-04T11:05:38, Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Some virtual environments are notoriously bad at keeping time
> > (vmware for example). I think that sometimes ntp can't prevent
> > clock from jigger.
> 
> Clock drifting is not the same as the clock jumping backwards;
> virtualization doesn't cause that.

Not directly, but in combination with ntp, i.e. if the clock
speeds a lot, there's no other way to keep the time but to have
it go backwards.

Thanks,

Dejan

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>     Lars
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