[Tfug] A sense of time

[Jim March]

A voting machine (as one example of a date-sensitive high security
application) DAMNED WELL BETTER NOT be wired to any network.

So UTC isn't a universal solution either.

Jim

On 8/2/07, Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com> wrote:
> Bexley Hall wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've periodically posted this question (or variations
> > thereof) in a number of different forums.  Obviously,
> > never quite happy with the answer(s) I've received
> > (I suspect it is yet another unsolvable problem  :< )
>
> I probably misunderstood the core problem, but if I were to write a
> piece of software where events relative to each other are important,
> then I would probably get UTC time off an internet server. Then when an
> event is created I would store it as a offset from the current UTC time.
> Even if the user changes the clock, you still know when in UTC time that
> event should occur.
>
> Andy
>
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> Andy
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