Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2017-12-12 Thread William Unruh
On 2017-12-12, romain.cordonn...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi > > Many thanks for your information. > > My project is processing meteorological data. > > I will check the fake ntp server python code. > > Restarting the ntpd is enough to synchronize with upper source ? even

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2017-12-07 Thread Terje Mathisen
romain.cordonn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have the same need as Cristian. I am working on a data processing project which is designed to run for 25 years. The customer wants us to run data processing simulation at any time (past/present/future) from 2018 to 2043. Is to possible to

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2017-12-05 Thread Mike Cook
> Le 5 déc. 2017 à 18:04, William Unruh a écrit : > > On 2017-12-05, romain.cordonn...@gmail.com > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have the same need as Cristian. >> >> I am working on a data processing project which is designed to run for 25 >>

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2017-12-05 Thread William Unruh
On 2017-12-05, romain.cordonn...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > > I have the same need as Cristian. > > I am working on a data processing project which is designed to run for 25 > years. > > The customer wants us to run data processing simulation at any time >

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-05-02 Thread Cristian Seres
Thank you for good solution suggestions and thanks for you who explained on behalf of me different scenarios where fake time is justified. The fake time is used for internal simulation purposes only, it will not be used for any malicious use. -- Cristian Seres

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-05-02 Thread unruh
On 2011-05-02, Cristian Seres cristia...@contrasec.fi wrote: Thank you for good solution suggestions and thanks for you who explained on behalf of me different scenarios where fake time is justified. The fake time is used for internal simulation purposes only, it will not be used for any

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-05-01 Thread Joseph Gwinn
In article slrnirobu0.8be.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: On 2011-04-30, Joseph Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: In article slrnirllcv.g22.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: On 2011-04-29, Cristian Seres

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-30, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:02 PM, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: Can you not just shut off ntp and set the clock back or forward? Ie, do you care in that case if he clock tracks UTC or not? Point is not to be on exact

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-30, Richard B. Gilbert rgilber...@comcast.net wrote: On 4/29/2011 10:39 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:02 PM, unruhun...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: Can you not just shut off ntp and set the clock back or forward? Ie, do you care in that case if he clock

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread David J Taylor
unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote in message news:slrnirnckd.qft.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca... [] I still have no idea why the OP wants to do what he claims to want to do. Perhaps you remember how year 2000 rollover tests were carried out? It included setting the clock forward

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread Uwe Klein
unruh wrote: On 2011-04-30, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:02 PM, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: Can you not just shut off ntp and set the clock back or forward? Ie, do you care in that case if he clock tracks UTC or not? Point is

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread Joseph Gwinn
In article slrnirllcv.g22.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: On 2011-04-29, Cristian Seres cristia...@contrasec.fi wrote: Hi! How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-30, Joseph Gwinn joegw...@comcast.net wrote: In article slrnirllcv.g22.un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: On 2011-04-29, Cristian Seres cristia...@contrasec.fi wrote: Hi! How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread folkert
How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first set the freely chosen date on NTP server and then keep the hours, minutes and seconds in sync with the real time?

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 4/30/2011 6:07 PM, folkert wrote: How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first set the freely chosen date on NTP server and then keep the hours, minutes and seconds in sync with the real

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-30 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-30, folkert folk...@vanheusden.com wrote: How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first set the freely chosen date on NTP server and then keep the hours, minutes and seconds

[ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread Cristian Seres
Hi! How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first set the freely chosen date on NTP server and then keep the hours, minutes and seconds in sync with the real time? Many thanks, --

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2011-04-29, Cristian Seres cristia...@contrasec.fi wrote: How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first set the freely chosen date on NTP server and then keep the hours, minutes and

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-29, Cristian Seres cristia...@contrasec.fi wrote: Hi! How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first set the freely chosen date on NTP server and then keep the hours, minutes

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread Terje Mathisen
Cristian Seres wrote: Hi! How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first set the freely chosen date on NTP server and then keep the hours, minutes and seconds in sync with the real time? Get

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread Chris Albertson
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:13 AM, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: On 2011-04-29, Cristian Seres cristia...@contrasec.fi wrote: Hi! How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread unruh
On 2011-04-29, Chris Albertson albertson.ch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:13 AM, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: On 2011-04-29, Cristian Seres cristia...@contrasec.fi wrote: Hi! How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread Chris Albertson
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:02 PM, unruh un...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: Can you not just shut off ntp and set the clock back or forward? Ie, do you care in that case if he clock tracks UTC or not? Point is not to be on exact UTC but still to keep a set of computer's clocks all on the same

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 4/29/2011 7:24 AM, Cristian Seres wrote: Hi! How would you implement an NTP server which would need to offer a time set deliberately in past/future, say 365*86400 seconds, or even better - first set the freely chosen date on NTP server and then keep the hours, minutes and seconds in sync

Re: [ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

2011-04-29 Thread Richard B. Gilbert
On 4/29/2011 10:39 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:02 PM, unruhun...@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca wrote: Can you not just shut off ntp and set the clock back or forward? Ie, do you care in that case if he clock tracks UTC or not? Point is not to be on exact UTC but still to