Re: [9fans] how to fix: 'arena arenas00 creation time after last write time'

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:16 PM, erik quanstrom<quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> ignoring little bugs is the path to ruin.

That's why the print should just go away entirely.
The code assumes that the time from one boot
to the next only ever increases, which has been
demonstrated not to be true.  Maybe during one
boot your clock is screwed up for one reason or
another and you don't notice for a few days.
Then when you fix it, venti prints messages ad
infinitum?  That's just broken behavior.

It's not a question of time zones.  Time zones don't matter.
It's just that the clock was wrong before and later is
correct--there are many reasons this might happen--
and venti shouldn't care.

The time stamps, like the ones in a file system, are
informational.  It's okay if they're wrong.  There's no
need to print.

Or should we continue to discuss tangents?

Russ