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		musicale on May 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduce Time Namespace (2019) Clock/time namespaces are something we've needed for years - is this actually integrated into the current kernel?

simcop2387 on May 5, 2020 [–]

5.6 and newer, yes.

musicale on May 5, 2020 | [–]

Looking more closely at it, this only seems to implement clock offsets rather than changing the length of a second. Changing the actual rate of system time progress would be helpful for a number of things including finding time-based synchronization errors.

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