"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" --Rodney King :-)
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Sheer Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 4:04 PM To: Leap Second Discussion List Subject: Re: [LEAPSECS] Leap Sec vs Y2K in future, please read my email before you reply. The fact that you INSIST that our timestamps being seconds or minutes off MUST be a problem for my company, WHEREAS it is definitively NOT a problem, is perplexing to me. Ohh, so you have heard of NTP, but have zero clue about how to configure it correctly ? why must i learn something so rarely required in practice? think of competence as a limited resource just like RAM or hard-drive life. Now, software is ALREADY written to work around the minor problem of computers being out of time-sync due to 10s of thousands "incompetent" sys admins. yours is a solution looking for a problem. And even more bizarre is that you basically admit that your NTP is broken: it only works properly *if* "configured correctly". Surely good software should auto-configure and work correctly by default????? No instead your solution requires everyone on the planet to "suddenly stop being incompetent". But this is off the topic. I pity your customers. Then you must also pity 99.999% of the software users on the planet all of which are not affected by missing NTP configurations. I would pity them if you worked for us. You would spend all your dev time obsessing over time-stamps, while neglecting the important features that help our customers generate revenue out of their subscribers. -paul
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