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From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Lost an hour?
Message-ID: <1993May5.204413.9874@uvm.edu>
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Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 20:44:13 GMT
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In article <C6K1HK.IGD@unx.sas.com> sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) writes:
>  I just noticed this morning that my machine (in the EDT time zone)
>similarly recently lost that same hour....

Interesting... My machine is still right on time...  Of course, it's
been up almost six days now, and operates as stratum 2/3 NTP server
for most of our network (four Sun-4s and an SGI 4D/480 at the moment,
plus all their broadcast clients).  Did your machine experience a
reboot before you noticed this?

[For the interested, here's my current clock stats.  The host is an
AT&T 6386/20 (Olivetti motherboard):

reftime=af92a36c.82ad2000  Wed, May  5 1993 16:34:52.510, poll=9,
clock=af92a454.6d1ee000  Wed, May  5 1993 16:38:44.426, phase=11.757,
freq=-61704.48, compliance=3

I don't know how this compares to other systems; the frequency offset
given translates to -58.8 ppm, which is certainly within the limits of
NTP's performance.]

-GAWollman

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