John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > Therefore, debian hackers should not waste their time trying to solve > > problems that they imagine such a person might have. > > I wrote: > > What are you talking about? > > Paul E Condon writes: > > The current standard precision clock... > > I know all that. I'm asking you to identify the imaginary problems that > you claim Debian hackers are wasting time trying to solve. > > Please do not cc: me. I read the list. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As I said in my last email, I do not intend, or mean, "imaginary". If I did not write "imagined", I should have, and I am sorry for the poor choise of word. And I did not intend to say that Debian hachers are working on this imagined problem, only that others are working on it and that Debian hackers should not waste their time on the problem being pursued by others. The problem to which I am referring is devising a protocol for the internet that will somehow support the cross-calibration of two primary standard atomic clocks **over the internet**. Use of words like "to atomic clock precision" are, to me, suspect in any proposed revision of NTP. Work on such proposals will surely not bare fruit. That is my point. Work on making NTP work in the hands of Klutzes like me is, I think, useful. At the least, it reduces the uninteresting email traffic on this list. And, again, I commend the support of NTP, ntpd, ntpdate, and chrony by Debian and by you. The issue is to which I referred is support for atomic clocks on the internet. Not the support of high quality (by human standards) time on the internet. I cited some numbers that I thought might explain why I think as I do. If they don't impress you, well... Perhaps my reasoning is wromg, or perhaps you are wrong in rejecting it, or perhaps both. But I thank you for your work, and I am sorry, truly, if my opinion causes you discomfort.
