[Vm-dev] [Cog] Funny thing about time

[John M McIntosh]

Some images grind logic thru the locale plugin to set the current time/date based on UTC & locale's viewpoint of time zone. 
You should peer deeper to understand exactly who/where the printed time is coming from... 

On 2011-01-11, at 5:18 PM, Chris Muller wrote:

> 
> Every time I jump back and forth from Windows to Linux on my primary
> laptop, the clock is wrong...
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yesterday on my comp two separate running images are hung
>> simultaneously, while i were doing something completely outside of
>> them.
>> 
>> And now during reading  the sqUnixHeartBeat.c:
>> 
>> 
>>        /* The native clock may go backwards, e.g. due to NTP adjustments, although
>>         * why it can't avoid small backward steps itself, I don't know.  Simply
>>         * ignore backward steps and wait until the clock catches up again.  Of
>>         * course this will cause problems if the clock is manually adjusted.  To
>>         * which the doctor says, "don't do that".
>>         */
>> 
>> i start recalling that yesterday i adjusted clock back by 1 hour,
>> because after installing a windoze in dual boot it was set it wrongly.
>> 
>> But of course it could be anything else :)
>> 
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>> 

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