Posted by Alan Milnes on 10/29/35 11:22

Vinoo S Warrier wrote:

>Hi all,
>Iam running PHP on THTTPD 2.21b
>
>I have a simple php script that sets the system clock (using exec("date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss") and returns a page showing the system time
>
>when i use it to set the time forwards, it works fine
>but if i use it and set the time backwards (even a few seconds), the webserver hangs. also it hangs only for exactly the amount of time needed for the backwards-set time to catch up with the original time. when the clock catches up with the original time, the page is returned. till then it hangs
>
>it's almost as if the webserver is waiting for the time to come back to the request-received time before sending the page.
>
Sounds like a Server problem rather than PHP - is this behaviour
supported by the Server? At work we used to have to power the servers
off for an hour at clock change time because of logging conflicts etc.

Alan

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