[LEAPSECS] Leap Sec vs Y2K

[Hornaday, Tem T III CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 52350]

"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?"
--Rodney King
 

:-)


________________________________

From: leapsecs-bounces at leapsecond.com [mailto:leapsecs-bounces at leapsecond.com] 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






-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/leapsecs/attachments/20101210/612674bc/attachment.htm>