23 Jun
2015
23 Jun
'15
9:07 a.m.
On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org> wrote:
Time going backwards is deadly to a number of applications.
But apparently not to applications you care about.
Oh it is a problem, and most handle it very ungracefully, such as dovecot which just dies: http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards The issue is also most people are used to using rc.local or rc.* type scripts to spawn a daemon which leads to the next major sysadmin/developer problem with is handling error cases improperly or not at all. (86401 is perhaps and error case that people should test for). - Jared