Hehe, if you think this is nuts, come to pharma. We can't do jack shit with our machines. If you so much as change the time on your machine, that is a 'data integrity breach', and if your actions are determined to be malicious it can result in a firing.
To be honest, changing the time on a machine is a very serious concern. Accurate timekeeping is crucial in security, that's how you connect events together.
Well, all the rigid policies like no dropbox or no FTP or no whatever, also arise from serious concerns. I just wanted to point out another seemingly innocuous one. Most of our equipment is not internet connected, and we need to manually change the time for daylight savings or other corrections. We have a company policy and procedure to do that periodically so that our audit trails are accurate. Sometimes folks get busy and the shop floor guys take matters into their own hands.
