"Resettng system time" message

Steve Horn · Post by **Steve Horn** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:59 pm

I've begun to get a lot of these "resetting system time due to time lag by more than 10 minutes..." messages. Never seen them prior to V3.0. What do they mean and why do they mean it?

Post by **ScottBot** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:44 pm

The message was to help find a problem where the system time would drift off on some machines. It will automatically reset the time (that's what the message is saying). I thought this was resolved for V3... but apparently there are still some systems that see it.

Steve Horn · Post by **Steve Horn** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:11 pm

So its saying my HB server box has clock issues? I'm not sure I understand your reply. Yes I am, I don't understand your reply.

Post by **ScottBot** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:19 am

Steve Horn wrote:So its saying my HB server box has clock issues? I'm not sure I understand your reply. Yes I am, I don't understand your reply.

No. Your machine is fine. It's just an internal problem in the system time plugin, but one which I still can't explain. The problem seems to be more evident on some machines, but there's nothing wrong with the clock on the machine.

It's not a new problem with V3, there's just a message now that states the issue and it will even correct the time when it detects the issue. I just haven't found what's actually causing the issue. In looking at the code, the condition seems impossible.... but it's obviously not.

Steve Horn · Post by **Steve Horn** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:11 pm

Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't sure if I needed to replace my "watch battery" in the box.

jkish · Post by **jkish** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:15 pm

I noticed this message appearing when the HouseBot machine was awakening from hibernation. Not sure if this is the only case, but that is the only time I have seen it.

Post by **ScottBot** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:48 pm

If it came out of hibernation, I would expect to see the message. Depending on your setup, it may not be a great idea to allow the machine that the HouseBot server is running on to hibernate. If there are tasks that were to execute at specific times, they may get missed if the machine is sleeping.

jkish · Post by **jkish** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:51 pm

Yes, I agree.

I disabled the hibernation for the very reasons you mention - just thought I would throw that out in case it was the cause of other user's issues.