In message <1C1C99B4-8EA8-42D8-923B-A46B64D989D5_at_noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:
>On Jul 29, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> From 1998 to 1999, I left the clock on my desktop Sun workstation
>set forward 11 years. This allowed me to test various Y2K
>remediation issues. (The 11 years was to select the next year with
>the same monthly calendar.) There is nothing untestable about leap
>seconds in either theory or practice.
I have three times been through what ended up being total reinstalls
from backups because some operator by accident (or stupidity) set
the clock forward in time and then backward in time on a database
installation.
Your workstation is not an "IT installation", it is just a workstation.
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Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Received on Sat Jul 30 2005 - 00:05:16 PDT