From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 4 0:11:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A9714C19 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA10569; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:07:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910040707.AAA10569@guppy.pond.net> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:10:54 -0700 From: "D.M.P." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Somers Cc: Jaye Mathisen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speeding up time... References: <199910040625.HAA00521@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Somers wrote: > > > I would like to play around with some y2k testing. > > > > While setting dates and such works, I'd really like to > > be able to disable xntpd, and have time move faster. So > > I could set the date to 12/28/99 or somesuch, and > > have time run at 4:1 or 10:1, or something that lets > > me run through a few days of operation in a few hours... > > > > > > Is there an obviously trivial way to do this? > > I think you can get away with simply tweaking machdep.i8254_freq (if > you're using that counter that is). Couldn't he just have xntpd sync to y2k-test.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov, instead of modifying the software itself? Or is this not appropriate for the Y2k test in question? -- "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Truth and faithfulness are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message