Perhaps the host OS' to which snapchat caters, don't all have a devent ntp subststem available? I have vague recollections of some other software (I'm sure we all know which) implemented it's own malloc layer for every system it ran on, for less trivial reasons. ;)
________________________________________ From: NANOG [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Raphael [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 5:34 PM To: Gary E. Miller Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Recent NTP pool traffic increase This was my thought actually, Apple does offer some time services as part of the OS but it’s becoming common with larger / more popular apps to provide some of these services internally. Look at the FB app for example, there are a lot of “system” things they do themselves due to the ability to control specifics. Users don’t want to have to install a second “specialised app” for this either. With regard to an ephemeral chat app requiring time sync, I can think of quite a few use cases and mechanisms in the app that might require time services. - Tim > On 21 Dec. 2016, at 9:26 am, Gary E. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yo [email protected]! > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:20:48 -0500 > [email protected] wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:11:11 -0500, Peter Beckman said: >>> Mostly out of curiosity, what was the reason for the change in the >>> Snapchat code, and what plans does Snap have for whatever reason >>> the NTP change was put in place? >> >> From other comments in the thread, it sounds like the app was simply >> linked against a broken version of a library.... > > But why is a chat app doing NTP at all? it should rely on the OS, or > a specialized app, to keep local time accurate. > > RGDS > GARY > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 > [email protected] Tel:+1 541 382 8588
