Synthetic Time Issued on a Partition
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Jun 2001
Q.
Dear Ab-end: I don't understand the message I'm seeing. What does "Synthetic time is being issued on partition..." mean and why is it important? -- Science Fiction Fan in South Dakota
A.
Dear Fan: Even though synthetic time sounds like a science fiction concept, it's really not. In NetWare 4 and 5, synthetic time is issued at servers with the error "DS- 4.63-12" if the server time is set backwards. The synthetic time will be cycled every 2 minutes until the server time is after the last modified timestamp.
For more information, see http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/tidfinder.cgi?10013670.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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