Re: time jumps (again)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 11:37:30 EST


On Llu, 2003-08-04 at 17:35, Patrick Moor wrote:
> few years! Uptime of the machine is now 218 days, and problems began
> appearing after 215 days approximately.

Not sure why 215 days should be significant

> What happens: when doing a
> $ while true; do date; done
> I'm noticing time jumps _exactly_ at the beginning of a "new" second (or
> at the end of an "old" one). the jump is exactly 4294 (4295) seconds
> into the future. Example:

4294.. top of -1

Smells of some kind of sign propogation bug

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