Assuming the timestamps are not forged, this only shows that the paper was uploaded November 2000. It might have been older. So we need a second source.
Second source: The citations. The paper cites: "Mogul, [...] Pulse-per-second API for Unix-like operating systems [...] March 2000 [...]"
So the paper is not older than November 2000 and not younger than March 2000.
For anyone wondering, this has nothing to do with microkernels. From the abstract:
The clock frequency in modern workstations is stabilized by an uncompensated quartz or surface
acoustic wave (SAW) resonator, which are sensitive to temperature, power supply and component
variations. Using NTP and traditional Unix kernels, incidental timing errors with an uncompensated
clock oscillator is in the order of a few hundred microseconds relative to a precision
source. Using new kernel software described in this paper, much better performance can be
achieved. Experiments described in this paper demonstrate that errors with a modern workstation
and uncompensated clock oscillator are in the order of a microsecond relative to a GPS
receiver or other precision timing source.
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Second source: The citations. The paper cites: "Mogul, [...] Pulse-per-second API for Unix-like operating systems [...] March 2000 [...]"
So the paper is not older than November 2000 and not younger than March 2000.
For anyone wondering, this has nothing to do with microkernels. From the abstract: