TIL if you want accurate reporting from a long-running #ZFS procedure, do not sync your system's clock when it has drifted a ways.

4 hours became 4 days.

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@lattera I use ntpdate -B *always*. Sometimes it takes weeks or months (or until a reboot)

@david Yeah. In this case, the server spend a year or two behind my Tor-ified network. No UDP support behind Tor.

@lattera oof... yeah. at one point (because Irix) I wrote a dead simple C program to call adjtime(2) natively with bespoke hand crafted artisanal timevals 😆

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