[Asterisk-Users] Re: Extreme delay before * processes call files

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Remco Barende wrote:
> Found it!!!!!
> 
> It seems that Asterisk is looking at the date / time stamp of the call 
> file to process the call?? I was simply moving the call files hoping
> "it would just work" (tm)
> 
> I guess that the call files created on the samba share I created carried 
> the time/date stamp of the local machine (workstation) and not the 
> asterisk server causing a time difference.
> 
> Now I run a "touch *" on the asterisk server before moving the call 
> files, all the calls are now processed immediately.
> 
> Is this intended behaviour for the call files?? Or just a bug?

It's not a bug.  Why not use NTP to sync the system's time to a well 
known source?