Nice descriptive article. I've done this on purpose too to debug
remote filesystem syncs and cryptography problems where machines are
out of sync. My GPS wall clock is handy for adjusting NTP, but the
time it takes to scan my eyes from the wall back to the monitor.. you
really do need two stacked like she did. So I now figured to use
transparrent terminals each logged into a different host and lay them
over one another running "watch -n1 date".<p>Would have been nice to have some more network, code and command line
examples. You need to set up a local ntpd and need to point your
local master at that temporarily. A better utility to write would be
"timediff -s1 -s2" that takes two time servers and shows the offset. I
bet there's a way to do that in one line. Anyone?
Is there a standard "smearing" period now? For a while, Google had a 24 hour adjustment period, 12 hours on each side of the leap second, while Facebook used a shorter period.
I wonder how much those broadcast/studio clocks are worth. I looked everywhere to find a digital alarm clock with orange LEDs and couldn't find one.
>Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years. Way to upstage me, dude.<p>Seeing that this was written by Rachel by the Bay, I thought it was going to be a post about Facebook's recent policy change, and indeed it was.
I wish I wasn't so stupid or unlucky. In another life I could be doing amazing shit like rachel by the bay instead of pushing code no one cares about and rushing deadlines only to get paid late.
> Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years. Way to upstage me, dude.<p>I feel like there's a link to a story missing there
The guy isn't sending the company 50 years back.<p>I come from a post-communist country which had a lot of censorship. It was happening 50 years ago as well (it was happening since the end of 40s to the end of 80s). Call me sensitive. ;)<p>The guy is removing the company from 50 years back.
This seems to be the reason for writing about the topic right now:<p>> So, yes, in June 2015, I slowed down the whole company [Facebook] by a second.<p>> Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty years [by ending fact checking?]. Way to upstage me, dude.
That policy change reads like a more liberal version of Obama's first term compaign platform on social issues.<p>Lets not pretend that the current climate in SF isn't both way outside the Overton window for most of rest of the US and most of California until ten years ago.