[LEAPSECS] Google, Amazon, now Microsoft

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20150531145859.GA10791 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:

>UCO/Lick knows that, even with the best available version of NTP, the
>sloppy (or even lack of) hardware clock on some motherboards [...]

This is *UTTER* bull-shit.

There is usable clock-hardware on all PC boards all the way back to the
original IBM PC, and Microsoft has never claimed that lack of hw was
the reason for this.

The main reason why good timekeeping support has never been a priority
for Microsoft is that it would allow people to measure how ridiculous
shitty their so-called Operating Systems are at all sorts of low-level
activities.

Recent versions of Windows have grown various hack-ish API's, mostly
because there was no to play video without it.  Most of these API's
are not good for anything else.

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