Posted by Andy Hassall on 06/23/07 13:00

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:28:18 -0400, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
wrote:

>Bad programming. What happens, for instance, if the clock on your
>server is "corrected" back five seconds (possibly because it's running
>fast)?

Well, that in turn would be bad server administration, since NTP tries to do
this by slowing the clock to maintain monotonic time - you have to be off by
minutes before it resorts to going backwards (and even then there's an option
to prevent it).

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