Re: [Gnumed-devel] server-client clock mismatches

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:23:59PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> However, Tobias raised a valid point - while requiring a
> fairly close time sync is all nice and good (for the reasons
> you list below) it can be unhelpful for those poor souls
> running operating systems which make it a hassle to
> atomic-sync their clocks online.
> 
> Hence I'll raise the allowance to, say, 5 minutes when
> running in --debug mode while setting it to 1 minute while
> in non --debug mode (which may be some sort of indication of
> "in production"). Now, even in --debug mode the warning will
> appear at > 5 minutes skew but logging in will proceed
> anyways if that's desired.

The code now does this:

- "in production" (== no --debug):
  - 1 minute skew allowance
  - informs and fails to login on larger skew

- "testing" (== --debug):
  - 10 minutes allowance
  - warns but allows login to proceed

Hope that makes sense.

10 minutes time-setting accuracy can surely be done manually
on any odd operating system.

Karsten
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