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Re: Acqusition of time
From: Volker Tanger <volker.tanger () discon de>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:04:46 +0100
Greetings! dave wrote:
Actually a good attorney could tear up any log system even with perfect time stamps. All that need would need to be proved was the fact that it could have been faked.
Basically right. But if you have to explain why you think that "this" could be the suspected entry and not the one three minutes earlier, an answer like "because the new Sun machine usually lags a few minutes behind the Compaq PC" will not be very convincing. There's quite some difference between
"consistent, sound, but maybe fake" and "inconsistent, nonreproducable assumptions and maybe fake"When trying to dissect problems log analysis will be a problem without consistent timestamp. On higher traffic lines (Mbit/s area) you'll have some tenthousand log entries per minute - which makes it practically impossible to pinpoint a specific log entry if you do not know the exact time as index.
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