[geeks] Time Synchronization

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:32:27PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 05:05 , Tyler Hardison wrote:
> 
> >I realize of course that we're all busy IT professionals. But is it too 
> >much
> >to ask for everyone to start running ntpd or a reasonable facsimile of 
> >it?
> 
> NO WAY!  I'm starting a society to increase time chaos.  I rarely wear 
> my watch anymore, and I'm trying to spread the concept of approximate 
> time.  We all spend too much time worrying about time, and not enough 
> time making time...
> 
> FREE YOURSELF!  If you can't handle out-of-order messages, how will you 
> handle life?
> 
> (I'm in one of those moods today...)

Hmm.  I think I had a professor who belonged to your society once.

Well, I'm all for flexibility with time.  Rather than ignore it though, I try
to be keep significant chunks open so that I don't have to leave someone 
waiting in the cold for 50 minutes when I decide to be flexible.


-- 
Joshua D. Boyd