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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 1997 10:18:33 -0800
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Neal Becker <neal@ctd.comsat.com> writes:

> Now this is weird.  I previously reported that with 20.1b2 on hpux9.05
> I have twice seen the modeline stop getting updates, with the time
> freezing permanently.
> 
> Now get this.  On two different xemacs on two different machines I
> have the time frozen at 4:18am.  What's that all about?

	Did someone (or something, like ntp) change the time on the
machine?  If you are using an external process for itimer and it returns
a failure, which can happen if people change the system time (backwards
I think), then it'll bail out and everything using it, including your
clocks, will freeze.

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