On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:56 PM, roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the time problem i was having before (fast clock) had seemed to be > irreproducible. however just now, i noticed the following > odd behaviour: > > fiddle% date -u > Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 1970 > fiddle% cat /dev/time > 0 0 0 > 1 fiddle% > fiddle% # wait a few seconds > fiddle% cat /dev/time > 0 0 0 > 1 fiddle% > > the clock is completely stopped! > (although sleep doesn't sleep forever - sleep 10 sleeps > for about 3.43 seconds, so *something* has a concept of time) > > most odd. > > Yeah.. :-( Odd and crappy. I can't figure out why this would happen.
