Re: [gentoo-dev] Signed push & clock drift rejection

[Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn]

waltdnes@××××××××.org schrieb:
>> And even if the system is behind time, it can cause problems. cronjobs
>> running unexpectedly close to each other (or missed cronjobs in extreme
>> cases). User sessions expiring early, etc.
>>
>> And even if there is only one second, and that is known well ahead
>> (e.g. leap seconds): Unless you know that there isn't going to be
>> a problem, a great deal of care needs to go into handling that.
>    In that case, the dev machine should be a separate machine from the
> server.  They don't even have to be separate physical machines.  Do the
> dev work in a VM, and set the time in the VM just before doing the push.

I am not talking about bircoph's dev machine, I am explaining why ntpd 
works the way it does. Which usually doesn't lead to problems as the 
drift will be corrected sooner or later. So there was never a problem 
nor reason for action in either case, until it was decided that 5 
seconds is the maximum drift for a push to gentoo.git.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn