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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.<br>
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On windows, it's probably going to be a problem, but I don't know
enough about the bbwin to confirm that.<br>
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-Dan<br>
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<pre wrap="">Time jumps backwards and forwards in some places for daylight savings.
Is this going to cause issues?
Jason Chambers I.T. Helpdesk Associate Geosoft Inc.
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From: Henrik Stoerner [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:henrik@hswn.dk">mailto:henrik@hswn.dk</a>]
Sent: June-14-07 1:44 AM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk">hobbit@hswn.dk</a>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] large system time change freezes hobbit client
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:31:42PM -0500, Daniel Bourque wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> I noticed that a large clock change tends to stop the hobbit client
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<pre wrap="">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.
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.
Clocks just aren't supposed to jump backwards ...
There are a couple of ways to fix this. One is in the current snapshot,
but I might do it differently.
Regards,
Henrik
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