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Date:      Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:27:36 +0100
From:      phk@freebsd.org
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wrong date for DEVFS entries 
Message-ID:  <1091.1044527256@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:51:48 %2B1100." <20030206193118.T72545-100000@gamplex.bde.org> 

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In message <20030206193118.T72545-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 23:44:08 +0100, phk@freebsd.org wrote:
>> >
>> > >2) Feb  6 01:36 (boot time)
>> > >3) Feb  6 04:36 (+3 TZ future jump)
>> >
>> > These timestamps have been touched, and the clock has made a 3 hour
>> > jump either forward or backward at some point.
>> >
>> > The problem is the clock jump, not DEVFS.
>>
>> Clock jump happens as it supposed when adjkerntz(8) corrects machine clock
>> back to GMT via various CPU_* sysctl's. Could touched DEVFS stamps be
>> fixed back to something useful in the same sysctl code too?
>
>This should be well known to devfs users.
>
>devfs sets at least some of the times before adjkerntz can run, and nothing
>fixes them, so these times are wrong by the timezone difference.

This is not any different from any other filesystem.

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