From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 06:56:51 +0100 Message-ID: From: roger peppe To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] more time amusement under vmware Topicbox-Message-UUID: 378baa8c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 the time problem i was having before (fast clock) had seemed to be irreproducible. however just now, i noticed the following odd behaviour: fiddle% date -u Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 1970 fiddle% cat /dev/time 0 0 0 1 fiddle% fiddle% # wait a few seconds fiddle% cat /dev/time 0 0 0 1 fiddle% the clock is completely stopped! (although sleep doesn't sleep forever - sleep 10 sleeps for about 3.43 seconds, so *something* has a concept of time) most odd.