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> No way on earth a user app should be getting its own time This practice is becoming increasingly common for "time-sensitive applications": https://eng.lyft.
by conradev 10y ago
> No way on earth a user app should be getting its own time
This practice is becoming increasingly common for "time-sensitive applications":
https://eng.lyft.com/freezing-time-6ebe8ffe3321 https://eng.lyft.com/freezing-time-6ebe8ffe3321
- acqq 10y agoJust checked, at least they use "time.apple.com" as default, and the default "maximum of servers" is 5. https://github.com/lyft/Kronos/blob/master/Sources/NTPClient.swift https://github.com/lyft/Kronos/blob/master/Sources/NTPClient... The third-party library used by Snapchat didn't have any "maximum of servers" (using 30 at once(!)) and defaulted to many in the ntp.org pool, across all the continents!