On Sat, 01 January 2000, Dave Neff wrote:

I used the nist program to synchronize time on 4 of my servers. All 4 of these servers sometime during New Years evening changed the time to December 31, 1909!!!! Servers not synchronzing with nist were fine. I turned off the nist program and set the time manually and all was well. It may have started midnight GMT, but I am not sure. My only Y2K glitch! And I kept telling people, "We synchronize with NIST, so as long as they are Y2K compliant we will be fine." I am not sure if the problem was with NIST, or my version of the program the synchronized clocks, but I was quite surprised.

I'm still trying to track down what happened. The latest report is NIST had a [maybe Y2K] problem with their internal system to coordinate the servers. When the NTP servers lost contact with the clock source, they became unsynchronized. Many clients won't synchronize to a server with an unsynchronized clock. That doesn't completely explain why www.time.gov is not available. ------- End of forwarded message -------