Fwd: Re: HELP !!! Problem with file timestamps updating "weird" during rsync data pull

[Sean O'Neill]

>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:26:46 -0500
>To: Wayne Davison <wayned at users.sourceforge.net>
>From: Sean O'Neill <sean at seanoneill.info>
>Subject: Re: HELP !!! Problem with file timestamps updating "weird" during 
>rsync data pull
>Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
>
>At 12:10 PM 10/16/2002 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
>>On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:36:10PM -0500, Sean O'Neill wrote:
>> > The timestamp should match that of the system the data is pulled from 
>> right
>> > ?  Well, it doesn't from time to time.  The time stamp sometimes gets
>> > updated as just "Oct 16 2002"
>>
>>This is what most unix systems display for a future date.  I'm guessing
>>that the clocks on your systems are not in sync -- that the clock on the
>>receiving end is behind the sending end, which causes files that have
>>been recently modified on the sender to show up as having future dates
>>on the receiving system.
>
>Ahh, excellent point.  These systems aren't as tightly controlled as our 
>development systems.  I'm not sure if NTP is setup or setup and running 
>correctly.
>
>Thanks, I'll check this out.

Yep, NTP was configured to run on my data collection system.  Over 150 
seconds behind the remote systems.  Hopefully Orca will be better behaved now.

Fixed ... Thanks :)


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