Re: agent_check_and_process: select info

Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Mike Ayers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Then reboot!  Apps (any apps) should certainly be able to handle clock changes, forward or back, of a second or less, without blinking.  Time zone changes are nice to have, but some things barf on those (I have a cell phone that can't grasp the concept of moving between time zones).  Forward time changes should be handled transparently, as the ubiquity of suspendable machines would require, but I'm well accustomed to seeing that mishandled.  If you need to make a substantial change backwards to the time setting on your computer, just reboot it, as it's a safe bet that none of your software was tested against that use case.

Sorry, but the above is not an acceptable solution. I know of more
than one (embedded) device that needs an accurate clock but for which
rebooting just to avoid a backward clock jump is unacceptable.

Bart.

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