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The default value for ''TIMESTAMP_ERROR_MARGIN'' is slightly more than twelve hours: this is intended to allow for the fact that there is no viable way for iPXE to determine its local time zone, and so there may be an error of up to twelve hours in the local system time as determined by iPXE. | The default value for ''TIMESTAMP_ERROR_MARGIN'' is slightly more than twelve hours: this is intended to allow for the fact that there is no viable way for iPXE to determine its local time zone, and so there may be an error of up to twelve hours in the local system time as determined by iPXE. | ||
- | You should therefore not reduce ''TIMESTAMP_ERROR_MARGIN'' below twelve hours unless you can guarantee that the local system clock will always be set to GMT. | + | You should not reduce ''TIMESTAMP_ERROR_MARGIN'' below twelve hours unless you can guarantee that the local system clock will always be set to GMT. |