On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Chris Phillips <ch...@untrepid.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I've just built a VM where the system clock was 2 hours off. Part of the
> puppet manifest is to get NTP going, so the system itself takes care of
> itself OK. However I just noticed on Dashboard that the report listed for
> the build phase was also two hours off. As such I'm given to assume that the
> official report time is actually taken from the client and not the puppet
> master? To me, this makes no sense, and must surely be a bug. Why would you
> ever want to trust a time stamp from the client instead of just using your
> own time as you receive the report? Now the new VM has the correct time, the
> new reports are listed as older as the build phase ones etc...
>

yeah, I've noticed that in foreman too, and we keep both report creation
time, and the client time, if they are off, we actually display a message
telling the user that the time is not in sync.

Ohad

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