Re: Clock skew with PG CVS repository?

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- --On Monday, July 16, 2007 17:17:49 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> I've noted a couple of cases recently that seem to indicate the CVS
> machine's clock is a few seconds ahead of mine, eg just now I did
> "cvs commit" and then immediately "make", and got this:
>
> $ make
> make: *** Warning: File `lock.c' has modification time in the future
> (2007-07-16 17:09:50 > 2007-07-16 17:09:43) gcc -O1 -Wall
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -fno-strict-aliasing -g
> -I../../../../src/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -c -o lock.o lock.c gcc
> -O1 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -fno-strict-aliasing
> -g -I../../../../src/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -c -o proc.o proc.c
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld -r -o SUBSYS.o lmgr.o lock.o proc.o deadlock.o lwlock.o
> spin.o s_lock.o make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be
> incomplete.
> $
>
> Manually issuing "date" on cvs.postgresql.org seems to confirm it's
> about ten seconds fast compared to here. Now NTP swears up and down
> that I'm synced within a few milliseconds of three different reference
> machines, so I think the problem is at that end. Is cvs.postgresql.org
> supposed to be running NTP? 'Cause I don't see any such daemon there.
>
> I haven't noticed this type of problem before, so your machine usually
> keeps good time, but right now it isn't.

Looking into it ...

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