[Vm-dev] [Cog] Funny thing about time
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Wed Jan 12 03:13:35 UTC 2011
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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