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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: NTP
Summary: time machines considered harmful
Message-ID: <42950@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 13 Oct 89 03:35:22 GMT
References: <141@ndl.UUCP> <89Oct12.112610edt.3212@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <89Oct12.150453edt.3224@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
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In article <89Oct12.150453edt.3224@neat.cs.toronto.edu>, rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
> 
> > From:	Dennis Ferguson <dennis@gw.ccie.utoronto.ca>
> > To:	rayan@ai.toronto.edu
> > 
> > ...  This was included because I once thought that
> > some people might find the occasional stepping of the time backwards
> > offensive.  Trouble is, I never tested this since the time stepping
> > happened so infrequently....

Things like cron and NeWS do not take kindly to reliving the past.  Reverse
time jumps are noticed around here.  I speak from experience.


Vernon Schryver
Silicon Graphics
vjs@sgi.com