20 Dec
2016
20 Dec
'16
10:42 p.m.
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....