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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Patrick Moor <pmoor@netpeople.ch>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: time jumps (again)
Date: 04 Aug 2003 17:37:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060015049.719.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F2E8B3B.3070003@netpeople.ch>

On Llu, 2003-08-04 at 17:35, Patrick Moor wrote:
> few years! Uptime of the machine is now 218 days, and problems began 
> appearing after 215 days approximately.

Not sure why 215 days should be significant

> What happens: when doing a
>   $ while true; do date; done
> I'm noticing time jumps _exactly_ at the beginning of a "new" second (or 
> at the end of an "old" one). the jump is exactly 4294 (4295) seconds 
> into the future. Example:

4294.. top of -1

Smells of some kind of sign propogation bug


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-04 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-04 16:35 time jumps (again) Patrick Moor
2003-08-04 16:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-08-04 21:49 ` Tim Schmielau
2003-08-04 22:38   ` george anzinger
2003-08-05  1:08     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-06 18:16   ` Timothy Miller
2003-08-06 18:55     ` George Anzinger
2003-08-07  0:29     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-05 10:32 ` Jan Niehusmann

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