Re: Back to the Future ? or some thing sinister ?

[Ram Gupta]

On 1/11/06, john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 22:03 -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > Chaitanya Hazarey wrote:
> > >
> > > We have got a machine, lets say X , make is IBM and the CPU is Intel
> > > Pentium 4 2.60 GHz. Its running a 2.6.13.1 Kernel and previously,
> > > 2.6.27-4 Kernel the distribution is Debian Sagre.

It may be BIOS related. But I feel it might be an overflow related
issue. If the variable is signed int then there will be a transition
from 0x7fffffff ns  to 0x80000000 ns which is basically from +2 sec to
-2 sec which will result in 4 sec loss.

Ram
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