[hobbit] large system time change freezes hobbit client

[Daniel Bourque]

On unix systems, that shouldn't cause a problem because the time is kept 
in seconds since epoch. Timezones are just masks that changes according 
to DST rules.

On windows, it's probably going to be a problem, but I don't know enough 
about the bbwin to confirm that.

-Dan

Jason Chambers wrote:

>Time jumps backwards and forwards in some places for daylight savings.
>Is this going to cause issues?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
>Sent: June-14-07 1:44 AM
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] large system time change freezes hobbit client
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>On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:31:42PM -0500, Daniel Bourque wrote:
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>>   I noticed that a large clock change tends to stop the hobbit client
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>>from sending status messages to the server. For example, if a system 
>>boots with the wrong time, I get cpu alerts, I go restart ntpd on it, 
>>then I won't get anymore status until I restart hobbit-client on that 
>>system...
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>This was reported a few days ago for hobbitlaunch on the Hobbit server,
>but yes - the same issue occurs on clients.
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>What happens is basically that hobbitlaunch remembers when it last
>ran one of the tasks, and then it will run it again when the time
>becomes (last_time_it_ran + interval). So if you set the current time
>back, it will stop running for some time.
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>Clocks just aren't supposed to jump backwards ... 
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>There are a couple of ways to fix this. One is in the current snapshot,
>but I might do it differently.
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>Regards,
>Henrik
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