[OpenIndiana-discuss] time-slider service and clock adjustments

[Timothy Coalson]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Oscar del Rio <delrio at mie.utoronto.ca>wrote:

>
> This sounds familiar and I found this old bug report:
> https://groups.google.com/**forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/comp.**
> unix.solaris/VAf6v02EQZk/-**Mook698kXYJ<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/comp.unix.solaris/VAf6v02EQZk/-Mook698kXYJ>
> "6996354 time-slider fails when daylight saving time ends"
>
> The only other reference to that bug I can find is
> https://github.com/bdrewery/**time-slider/commit/**
> 4ba07f0c289bbb4dff9c4555c9eed1**de2c90ffed<https://github.com/bdrewery/time-slider/commit/4ba07f0c289bbb4dff9c4555c9eed1de2c90ffed>
>
> "Fix for 6996354 gracefully handle snapshot failure"
> with minor changes to
> usr/share/time-slider/lib/**time_slider/util.py
> usr/share/time-slider/lib/**time_slider/zfs.py
>

That looks like exactly the right thing...question is, why is OpenIndiana
using a version of time-slider without a 2 year old patch?

Tim