[ntp:questions] How to keep fake time in past/future?

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sat Apr 30 03:34:52 UTC 2011


On 4/29/2011 10:39 PM, Chris Albertson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:02 PM, unruh<unruh at wormhole.physics.ubc.ca>  wrote:
>
>> Can you not just shut off ntp and set the clock back or forward? Ie, do
>> you care in that case if he clock tracks UTC or not?
>
> Point is not to be on exact UTC but still to keep a set of computer's
> clocks all on the same wrong time.
>
>

What problem are you trying to solve?   What makes a wrong time better 
than the correct time?

Please note that many Operating Systems can keep UTC internally and 
display whatever local time(s) is/are most convenient!




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