In 1980-81, I worked on a server that had been manufactured for use in Panama, therefore it had a 50Hz clock. Work days passed quickly... but the boss refused to let us go home when the (fast) system clock said 17:00:00.
Bob On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 3:23 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not a cron fail as such but at one of my early gigs I had a machine > with an hourly cron job that sometimes would run twice and sometimes > not run at all. > > Turned out there were two time sync daemons running using different > time servers and those two servers were far enough part that the system > time intermittantly skipped past and back over the hour mark. > > -- > Rich Pieri > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss