On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:41:37 -0800, Keenan Tims said: > Better for whom? I'm sure all mobile operating systems provide some > access to time, with a least 'seconds' resolution. If an app deems this > time source untrustworthy for some reason, I don't think the reasonable > response is to make independent time requests from a volunteer-operated > pool for public servers designed for host synchronization.
This is possibly at least partly due to "dependency hell". For a worked example from earlier this year: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ So a lot of people had their stuff blow up, even though their code called left_pad exactly noplace....
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