Recent NTP pool traffic increase

Wed Dec 21 01:34:25 UTC 2016

This was my thought actually, Apple does offer some time services as part of the OS but it’s becoming common with larger / more popular apps to provide some of these services internally.
Look at the FB app for example, there are a lot of “system” things they do themselves due to the ability to control specifics. Users don’t want to have to install a second “specialised app” for this either.

With regard to an ephemeral chat app requiring time sync, I can think of quite a few use cases and mechanisms in the app that might require time services.

- Tim

> On 21 Dec. 2016, at 9:26 am, Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com> wrote:
> 
> Yo Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu!
> 
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 20:20:48 -0500
> Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:11:11 -0500, Peter Beckman said:
>>> Mostly out of curiosity, what was the reason for the change in the
>>> Snapchat code, and what plans does Snap have for whatever reason
>>> the NTP change was put in place?  
>> 
>> From other comments in the thread, it sounds like the app was simply
>> linked against a broken version of a library....
> 
> But why is a chat app doing NTP at all?  it should rely on the OS, or
> a specialized app, to keep local time accurate.
> 
> RGDS
> GARY
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