From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2006-07-19T02:02:24+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Negative Sleep (#87)

On 7/18/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/18/06, Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> >     TimeStrFormat = "date -s %H:%M:%S"
> >   ...
> >     system(t.strftime(TimeStrFormat))
>
> Dangerous !!!!
> Just do not do this, you have to be root to do it anyway, but if you do it
> say good bye to your filesystems, databases etc. etc.
>
oops. It's been about 10 years since I used Unix regularly, and I was
never the sysadmin.

I suppose this is offtopic, but why would it mess up the filesystem?
I realize if you leave the time set in the past you'll run into
problems with file creation/modification times, but the testscript
restores the time to its original point - where's the lasting harm in
that?

I didn't seem to suffer any permanent side effects after running it on WinXP.

-Adam