E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote: > David Woolley wrote: >> Steve Kostecke wrote: >>> On 2009-10-22, David Woolley wrote: >>>> I believe that the official policy line is that database >>>> systems that require monotonic time for their >>>> distributed transaction logic are fundamentally flawed. >>> It is the database people who require monotonic time. >> Transaction logic implied databases. >>> If there is an "official policy line" it is that any >>> system with a clock which drifts past the step threshold >>> is fundamentally flawed. > > I guess I could see 10 minutes (or more) if the time had > never been set to anything reasonable; However 10 minutes > seems really far out for something that was previously > syncing with NTP servers (or any other source of time). > I don't see what "previously synching" has to do with anything. If previously synching means three weeks ago, it's meaningless! If it means thirty minutes ago, I would expect the clock to be within a few milliseconds of the correct time. If not I would regard the clock as broken! I'm assuming reasonably constant temperature!
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