RE: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #2726 - 13 msgs

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

I just got some mental images of a security auditor (or some law enforcement 
agency looking over subpoenaed records attempting to establish a time-line) 
wondering "You did WHAT to the system clock??????"

Somehow it seems to invite serious trouble somewhere along the line.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@midrange.com wrote:

>   2. RE: With the upcoming time change.... (DeLong, Eric)
>
>I recall someone posting that one systems vendor changed the system clock to
>speed up or slow down until the clock had moved forward or back by one hour.
>It seems a reasonable way to get around the problem of "reliving" that extra
>hour when we "fall back".  Time based logs would still be linear.  I suppose
>that workload estimators would go nuts trying to understand how 180%
>utilization for that hour could have happened... <g>

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Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
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Kent, WA 98032
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