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From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:39:32 +0530
Subject: Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0
To: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.4668.1388160953.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>  Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:29:30 -0500, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
>> following:
>>
>> >
>> >NTP is never supposed to move the clock backwards.  If your system clock
>> >is fast, it's supposed to reduce the rate your clock runs until it's
>> >back in sync.  Well, maybe it only does that for small corrections?
>>
>>       Especially likely when one considers that M$ Windows only does a time
>> synch once a week.
>
> When I attempt to reason about what is possible and what is impossible
> in a program, I assume a sane universe.

Hmm...
Any clues for a pathway to this alternate universe?
:D