Re: after ids

Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
PS: The whole issue is only relevant if the underlying system
clock has a tendency to run unsteadily, which was probably
the reason for not caring back when "after" was designed.

So run ntpdate (or equivalent) already.

sorry, cannot really parse that line...

What has ntpdate got to do with the issue of system-time not
always passing uniformly (beyond being one possible cause of
it)?

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