From: Andy Parkins Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:35:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a 1-second sleep to git-cvsexportcommit test Message-ID: <200707250835.21181.andyparkins@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Tuesday 2007 July 24, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So if you sleep for one second, the filesystem times will update by one > second, but if you try to *synchronize* to exactly one second, it's not at > all certain that the *filesystem* clock will be synchronized to the same > second! Time skew is simply a fact of life. I think it's even worse; if memory serves one of the Windows file systems (spit) only stores times to a two-second resolution. So half the time, waiting for one second won't change the time stamp _at all_. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com