On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 07:12:16AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:19:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge spake thusly: > > No, because it would have to run as root (superuser) in order to be > > able to change the system time. > > You don't have to change the system time. Let fred maintain it's own time. > It check check with the ntp server, note by how much the ntp servers time > differes from the system time, and apply that as a correction factor in > any time calculations.
This is overkill - we tell the user to set their damn clock correctly. At worst - we certainly don't want to rely on a centralized solution like NTP, it isn't easy to find working NTP servers. If we really decide that just telling the user that they need to set their clock correctly then we should have a decentralized solution within Freenet. However - personally I think that anything more than putting a note in the README that their clock needs to be correct is way-overkill. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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