[FRIAM] Causality violations

[Russell Standish]

I do autosyncronise my computers clock with NTP. Where it all goes
pear shaped is that I send mail from Linux running on VMWare running
on top of Windows. Everytime windows hibernates, VMWare's clock gets
screwed up.

I have a menu item that connects to NTP and syncronise's Linux's
clock, but that requires me to remember to run it, and it doesn't
always work - even when I am online...



On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:11:17PM +0200, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> 
> Yes, you are right. If I sort after the remote sender's time, Outlook
> shows the wrong message order, too.
> 
> -J.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf
> Of Bill Eldridge
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:01 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Causality violations
> 
> I think it's simply that Russel has his computer date wrong (one day early),
> and while Outlook uses the local arrival time, Thunderbird uses the remote
> sender's time.
> 
> Of course it's pretty absurd that in 2006 we still don't have computers on
> networks naturally synchronized time-wise by default. At a minimum to within
> a second or two.
> 
> 
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