On 11/15/05, J Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Come on, Shane - did you ever take a friggin' course in English? Are you > telling me that the passage above makes the following one-liner clear: > > 'adjusting local clock by XXs' > > The word 'by' is a preposition with a specific meaning in the context of > its use... it means "in the amount of"... but that's not what it means > here, is it? No, it does not. Therefore, the log entry is *inaccurate*.
come on, if you are a native speaker (as if that mattered), and fluent _reader_, you'd have noticed the words of Alexander Hall in this thread: "It is changing it by 60 seconds, but very slowly." That means: the clock is changed by the amount of 60 sec, but not immediately. Which is fine in my book, because I don't like time jumps (they are soo confusing). And it should be correct english, which, of course, I am not to judge, since my last friggin' course in English was back in the days I went to school. --knitti > > So there is no crisis to be averted here, Shane. A developer for whom > English is probably a second language mis-used the language, and created > confusion. OK, that's cool... but what escapes me is this comment: > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=110202770603752&w=2 > > --- > > so I'll change > > log_info("adjusting local clock by %fs", d); > > into > > log_info("now kindly asking the kernel to adjust the clock " > > "by %f seconds but it will not do so at once so maybe " > > "it takes a while", d);" > > --- > > I gather that he rejected the consensus that his choice of words was > confusing? > > > >I don't know who Henning is, and I don't know what he voted "no" > > >to, but > > >if he voted against a clear log message, then he voted "yes" to > > >confusion. > > > > Come on. You've been haunting these lists for long enough to know who > > Henning is. Cut the theatrics. > > No theatrics intended - since the OP, I've been informed that Henning > wrote some or all of the code in ntpd. That's great - I love the code, I > think his English needs some work. > > Jay
