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bug#40220: date command set linux epoch time failed


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#40220: date command set linux epoch time failed
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 01:00:49 -0700
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On 3/27/20 11:52 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
I tested this in a victim system and if I was very quick I was able to
log in and set the time to :10 seconds but no earlier.

Sounds like some sort of atomic-time thing, since UTC and TAI differed by 10 seconds when they started up in 1972. Perhaps the clock in question uses TAI internally?





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