Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:10:54 -0700 From: "D.M.P." <dmp@aracnet.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speeding up time... Message-ID: <199910040707.AAA10569@guppy.pond.net> References: <199910040625.HAA00521@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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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
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