Strange problems with slipping dates
I've noticed a very strange problem.
I'm running an up-to-date bo system.
The other day, I've seen in the setuid.changes that some dates for
special files had slipped by exactly one minute in the past. Eg:
< root floppy 2, 0 Dec 4 19:34 /dev/fd0
< root floppy 2, 4 Dec 4 19:34 /dev/fd0u720
< root floppy 2, 24 Dec 4 19:34 /dev/fd0u1760
< root floppy 2, 1 Dec 4 19:34 /dev/fd1
< root floppy 2, 13 Dec 4 19:34 /dev/fd1h410
< root floppy 2, 17 Dec 4 19:34 /dev/fd1h420
< root floppy 2, 21 Dec 4 19:34 /dev/fd1h880
---
> root floppy 2, 0 Dec 4 19:33 /dev/fd0
> root floppy 2, 4 Dec 4 19:33 /dev/fd0u720
> root floppy 2, 24 Dec 4 19:33 /dev/fd0u1760
> root floppy 2, 1 Dec 4 19:33 /dev/fd1
> root floppy 2, 13 Dec 4 19:33 /dev/fd1h410
> root floppy 2, 17 Dec 4 19:33 /dev/fd1h420
I didn't pay much attention to this. Until today when I realised that
mirror has been running for 24 hours downloading the complete debian
archive because some dates had slipped by one minute in the past on
my
machine !
I rebooted, but the dates remained the same...
Could this be a libc problem ?
A kernel problem ? (scoring a 10 days uptime here !)
Something else ?
Anyone constated the same problem ?
Now, I remember updating timezone recently. Would have someone
changed the PST timezone ? Hmmm ? By a few seconds ? Make the changes
seemingly randomly distributed in the filesystem ? But for mirrored
directories, as mirror does an explicit touch on every file it
downloads, with zero seconds, a small shift backwards would make all
the files obsolete...
If this is it, we should warn mirror users...
Phil.
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