On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 05:27, sungo wrote;
> the combination of those two ideas pretty much guarantee a time
> shift less system on a well maintained box. ntp will keep the
> system time from drifting more than a few attoseconds from
> standard. and utc doesn't change. the epoch time where $ENV{TZ} is
> set to UTC, GMT or one of the other synonyms will see no time
> shift around the daylight saving time jumps.
As a sysadmin, I've always considered time() being stable a basic
sanity condition of a working server. If you change the clock, you
need to restart applications.
Leap seconds be damned :-)
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Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Before Java we had to code all of out bugs by hand; now we just
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