This discussion is beginning to evoke scenes from The Holy Grail ("... It's
only a model") - It's a beta design! The clock'll probably get taken off
when the site goes live as the main frontpage, the amount of times that
script'd be hammering an NTP server, they'd either have to set their own one
up or arrange something with one of the unis who host stratum-2 NTP servers
on a fat Janet connection. Static content can be cached and distributed to
local nodes by ISPs and the BBC itself, but realtime NTP queries will really
kill a box and suck up a ton of bandwidth.I just really like it for what it is, and I never once thought of using it to reliably tell the time. My <nerd> PC, running Atomic Clock Sync - or my (atomic clock-synced) wristwatch </nerd> do that job just fine. ;) Can't people just appreciate it as a nice retro touch? Given that it'll probably disappear in the future anyway if the powers that be have a say about it... 'waste of resources'... 'not useful for the majority'... The PVT gets waved around and the idea gets called off immediately... Or am I breaking out the cynicism a little too heavily tonight? ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
