On 02/22/2012 03:20 AM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Phil Mayers<p.may...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: >> I realise this is tricky to solve, but I'll note it's not impossible for >> really REALLY big clock skews to happen. For example: recently we had a >> server kernel panic and need a cold reboot. The machine booted and read >> it's time from the CMOS clock, which was way WAY out. A minute or two >> after the machine had booted, NTP slewed the clock back by months... > > This is kind of a nitpick, but I think it's a fairly important one: > "slewing" the clock refers to a process where the clock frequency is
Sorry, you're quite right. Stepping, not slewing. Brain hiccup. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
