31 Dec
1999
31 Dec
'99
11:09 p.m.
At 10:17 PM -0200 12/31/99, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
While monitoring GMT Y2K progression on a Cisco router, something curious showed up: [...] Notice the dot before the time; it was not appearing before, and even on the first sample after GMT Y2K-rollover (local time is GMT -0200). It now shows up on every 'show clock'.
This doesn't seem to be a problem with cisco, but if you are synchronizing to certain NTP servers (i.e. usno or nist) they currently have reachability problems. So your cisco reports a "." that your ntp is unsynchronized. I haven't found out if the government networks are deliberately throttling traffic or if the links to the time servers are just congested. I have no idea why it started at almost exactly midnight UTC.