NFS [un]reliability

[Jerry West]

With regard to the Emacs filetime problems on a nova of Suns hanging
off one server.... we found that we had more problems with date(1) being
different on different machines. Sun have "fixed" ls et al to allow for
files created some (small) time in the future, but GNU Emacs might be
falling foul of this. An rdate(8) in crontab keeps things in line.

Jerry West