Interesting deadline dates
17 Jan 2006 1:52:37 UTC
Topic 190622
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I recently did a system restore on an XP home machine and as I can best recall went back 3 or 4 days. I happened to notice the deadline dates on the work I have yet to complete and their all dated in late Dec. of 1901. Should I abort and replace these jobs or just go ahead and send 'em in?
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Interesting deadline dates
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Just checked your farm on the website and your XP rigs 437xxx and 492xxx have regular deadlines listed for all outstanding WUs, and your 438xxx rig has no work listed. Unless the latter rig (438xxx) is the one you had to restore, I'd suggest you go ahead and crunch them as usual.
Regards,
Michael
microcraft
"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice" - MLK
RE: I recently did a system
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I have the exact same thing on a system where I just replaced the motherboard. All work has a due date in 1901, and I get the message saying I should consider aborting these work units.
Should I?
RE: I have the exact same
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No. All your results have deadlines in the future. So crunch, upload and
report some and check, if the state changes to "pending". Only abort,
if state changes to "missed deadline" or something like that.
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
You might want to go into
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You might want to go into your BIOS and check to see that the date is correct.
microcraft
"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice" - MLK
RE: You might want to go
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Hmm? The deadline ist in the file client_state.xml in the boinc directory. It is stored in seconds since 1970. Depending on the version of the client, this value is an integer or a double. I would check this one first.
RE: RE: You might want to
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Yes but it is sent as seconds from now and the client converts into seconds from 1970. So if the clock is wrong you will get some wild deadlines.
BOINC WIKI
BOINCing since 2002/12/8
Bios time is correct. New
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Bios time is correct. New downloaded work shows correct deadline date. I appear to be getting credit for the work units in question, so...
Crunch on!