Re: Location Requirements - Data Details

At 10:22 AM 7/18/2002 +0900, Randall Gellens wrote:
>At 7:15 PM -0500 7/17/02, James M. Polk wrote:
>
>> I firmly believe the timestamp should be a requirement (using NTP)
>
>I'm not sure we should require use of NTP.

Can you name a more appropriate time mechanism that the Big I Internet
uses/should use in this case?

Standalone devices within internal clocks are inherently highly inaccurate
- including the problem of timezones, even ones where the timezone shift is
in 15 or 30 minute increments.

And *if* we go down the path (that I don't agree with BTW) of delta, the
inaccuracies of timing compounds the problem ...

cheers,
James

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Received on Wed Jul 17 21:49:45 2002