clock skew on save

clock skew on save

[matt hall]

hi,

i am using GNU emacs 21.3.2 on solaris 8 and have a difficulty with the
time given to a recently saved file. each time i save, the time that is
obtained via an ls is 260 seconds (or so) in the future, which is causing
make to complain. i have searched around as much as i can but can't seem
to find much about this problem on the web.

when i type ls -l to check the times i see something like:

-rw-r--r--   1 mhall    clineuro     935 Aug 31 14:30 bTensors.h
-rw-r--r--   1 mhall    clineuro   26478 Sep 27  2004 gdt.c

(where the lower file is the one i've just saved). the date format is
different, but reverts to the form of the upper file after the 260 seconds
has elapsed.


can you guys help?


many thanks,

matt.

Re: clock skew on save

[Stefan Monnier]

> i am using GNU emacs 21.3.2 on solaris 8 and have a difficulty with the
> time given to a recently saved file. each time i save, the time that is
> obtained via an ls is 260 seconds (or so) in the future, which is causing
> make to complain. i have searched around as much as i can but can't seem

My crystal ball says that your home directory is served by NFS from a server
whose clock is 260s faster than the clock of your computer.
Emacs has nothing to do with it.


        Stefan