From: "Phil Kelly" 
Subject: Re: Synthetic Time
Date: 1998/11/26
Message-ID: #1/1
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Newsgroups: fido.novell

Basically the NDS timestamps all its operations. If you put server time back
in the past, there are objects in the NDS with a later series of timestamps
and the NDS then issues synthetic time on those partitions UNTIL all
timestamps are in the past.

It's bad form to do this, but in practice doesn't seem to cause many
problems (we have a millenium test bed that's constantly being switched
between 1998 & 2004 and again and again.... it's always got synthetic time
messages on the console but continmues to provide good service etc) Maybe
we'll have a big problem in the millenium though!

Phil
phil@pkltd.demon.co.uk

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Noel Reynolds wrote in message
...
>I changed the time for my Novell 4.11 server in DOS.  When I reboot I
>get:
>
>�Synthetic Time is being issued on partition partitionname�
>Every 2 minutes !
>
>As far as I can tell Novell gets it�s time from DOS.  I am running the
>SP5.
>
>Anyone any ideas ?
>
>
>