[ntp:hackers] W32time precision restrictions

todd.glassey at att.net todd.glassey at att.net
Thu Sep 1 16:56:45 UTC 2005


Brad - its not an OS problem - its an environmental one... and that is very clear. But the performance characteristics for what NTP is and how it performs and how its to be used are what we are talking about.

As to Microsof's not bothering to listen - who cares - their clients will when they find out that the timestamps they are trying to use to get legal protection for certain types of events are questionable.

T.

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
> At 3:25 PM +0000 2005-09-01, todd.glassey at att.net wrote:
> 
> >  Gentlefolk... this is EXACTLY why I keep hammering this group on the need
> >  for a set of uniform performance standards for NTP and how its host OS's
> >  treat it...
> 
> 	This is not an OS problem.  This is an application problem.
> 
> 	If this was an OS problem, then this problem would be shared by 
> all NTP implementations on that same OS, which we know is not true.
> 
> 	Moreover, Microsoft has made damn sure that their implementation 
> is only kinda-semi-sorta like NTP, so I don't see how our setting any 
> "standards" in this area would help.  It's not like Microsoft would 
> ever bother to listen to anyone outside the company.
> 
> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
> 
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> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
> 
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>      Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
> 
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