[LEAPSECS] Leap Sec vs Y2K

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Dec 11 17:35:14 EST 2010


In message <1292102703.24926.29.camel at localhost>, Paul Sheer writes:


>Apply this principle as follows: ACCEPT that there are servers

>and desktops all over the world are MISCONFIGURED and do NOT

>have second-accurate syncronization, and are NEVER going to

>have second-accurate syncronization.


Ohh we do, we most certainly do.

But that does not allow us to ignore the servers which are
synchronized and which need to be synchronized to work.

Poul-Henning

PS: Your caps-lock seems to be flakey.

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