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NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 179

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:07PM
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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2012: the end of the world! (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:09PM (#42046605)

Oh sorry. My clock's off.

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2000 ZERO ZERO (Score:5, Funny)

by Jeremiah Cornelius (137) writes: on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:16PM (#42046689) Homepage Journal

Party's over,
Whoops! Out of time!

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RTFA (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:20PM (#42046747)

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).

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Re:The Y2K bug (Score:5, Funny)

by PPH (736903) writes: on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:27PM (#42046831)

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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