From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 07:53:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA08956 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 07:53:31 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA08905 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 07:53:18 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01699; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 16:52:49 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA12229 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 16:52:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA27953 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 07:30:03 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506230530.HAA27953@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Check the date and time at boot To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 07:30:02 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506230451.VAA09559@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 22, 95 09:51:26 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1095 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > The flaw here is that not everybody is connected to the internet to run a > > clock-checker program... > > And these are the same types of people who are likely to turn there > machines off for more than a few hours, causing this little utility to > falsely trigger ever time they boot. Objection, Rod. There's that small part of the world outside Big US with its Great Internet. European telecommunication used to be WAY expensive compared to the US world. My current income wouldn't suffice if i'd like to connect my machine to the Internet via the phone at startup. (My monthly phone bill is already around DM 150 through 200 now, makes for US$ 100 .. 150, to give you a comparision, and i'm lucky enough to have a small non-commercial ISP that doesn't cost me very much.) Of course, the above feature *must* be selectable, so everybody who isn't used to run his machine all the time won't suffer from it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)