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NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-about-that-time-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems a glitch of some sort wreaked havoc on some NTP servers yesterday, causing many machines to revert to the year 2000. It seems the Y2K bug that never happened is finally catching up with us in 2012."

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  1. 2012: the end of the world! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh sorry. My clock's off.

  2. 2000 ZERO ZERO by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Party's over,
    Whoops! Out of time!

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  3. RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For those of you who didn't read the article; US Naval Observatory rebooted one of their NTP servers (tock.usno.navy.mil I believe, though not sure), and the server's time reverted to 2000.. This time change got pushed out, and thus people freaked out claiming that NTP was broken.

    A lesson can be learned from this: change your BIOS battery when it's dead (alternatively, never reboot your servers).

  4. Re:The Y2K bug by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trust the computer industry to shorten the term "Year 2000" to Y2K.

    It was this kind of thinking that got them in trouble in the first place.

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    Have gnu, will travel.