On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Time goes backwards by one hour[1] at least once a year across most of the > world. > > http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time-wisdom > > [1] Unless it's less than an hour. Or more than one hour.
Kinda. That should be accompanied by a change in UTC offset, indicating that time hasn't gone backwards, just the clock. Anything that queries the clock in UTC shouldn't see it go backward. But if there's a time server that's misconfigured, and it actually jumps time backward, then yes, you could see NTP change the time back by an hour once a year. It's wrong, but it certainly can happen. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
