At 5:04 PM +0200 2005-09-11, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
Network traffic just doesn't
count with the ntp protocol, even if I have to conceded that it's silly,
from a technical pov, to sync my clock in .ch from a timeserver in .au.
For you, that would be silly. You care more about your clock
than that, and you care more about network bandwidth being used
inefficiently, etc....
But the average user doesn't care about any of these things. And
I think that everyone would probably be better off if we didn't give
them the opportunity to be confused by such things.
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