On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Mark Baker wrote: > As it is, we use POSIX time, which means that the system time follows GMT. > When there is a leap second the time itself is changed; the timezone > information does not need to. > > > This is completely unacceptable. OS time must be predictable. > > Which is why real time would be much better than POSIX time. > > Unfortunately we have to use POSIX time, so we're compatible with other > computers on the network :(
Can someone explain to me exactly what POSIX time is? I was under the impression that many computers on the net (at least ones belonging to big sites) grabbed their time from a radio signal broadcast by the U.S. Naval Observatory or some similar organization, and propagated the correct time from there. xntp is supposed to figure in network latency from a host with an authoritative notion of the time, right? I do know that they do that very thing here at Purdue. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
