Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:56:09 -0600, Paul Probert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > >> Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned, this happens to just >>about every machine in our collection of about 20 machines. Each is of a >>different age, and the hardware is completely diverse. Each has either >>of NT4, win2k, or XP installed. They all belong to our domain >> >> >> > Any chance they all tend to have slow clocks, and are getting bitten >by a semi-random NTP time update; my machine tends to run the NTP update >at 7-day intervals (including time of day), counting from the last >successful synchronization. > > This is now our leading suspect. All the affected machines have "abouttime.exe" running as a service, something our sysadmin put in a few years ago. We are currently disabling this and now waiting for the proof. Thanks!
Paul Probert University of Wisconsin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
