Re: Clock skew detected warning

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Li, Shiping \(Sam\)" <address@hidden> writes:

  ls> I am using gnumake to build a code and got below errors:
 
  ls> gnumake[2]: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be
  ls> incomplete.
  ls> .....
  ls> gnumake.exe[1]: *** Warning: File `../../videoss/mp4/dec/src/mp4d_mb.d'
  ls> has modification time in the
  ls>  future (2006-04-02 22:48:35 > 2006-04-02 21:49:07)
  ls> ....
 
  ls> I think normally people met this problem in NFS server because of
  ls> the clock sync problem, but they are talking about 2 seconds at
  ls> most.  In my case, it is one hour!
 
  ls> I think it may caused by summer time, it started today (April 2nd)
  ls> and it is the first day of summer time.  I met this problems in
  ls> two PCs.  I am using winXP and all the files are stored locally.

Well, if this is true then Windows has a stupid implementation of
timestamps.  Any intelligent operating system will store timestamps in a
canonical format that does not jump around wildly when changing
timezones or entering/exiting daylight savings.

I don't use Windows so I don't know how it works: maybe it does the
intelligent thing, too, and there's something else wrong here.  You
might consider asking on the address@hidden mailing list to see if
they have any advice there... this is a Windows-specific issue and they
know much more about Windows than the folks reading this list.


Good luck!

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