News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Buy Well. Buy Once. Parent comment

Re:Buy Well. Buy Once by msla on Saturday June 10, 2023 @12:53PM (#36272217)
> A Rolex is an incredible engineering marvel and is in fact very high quality and durable.

But it's fundamentally worse at being a timepiece than a digital watch synchronized to an NTP time server.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Buy Well. Buy Once by badpun on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:55PM (#36272904)
It's a Rube Goldberg machine.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Buy Well. Buy Once by Our_Benefactors on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:53PM (#36273694)
This is a completely different device than a mechanical watch. Nobody cross shops GPS watches with a Rolex. Maybe a grand Seiko.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Buy Well. Buy Once by CPLX on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:37PM (#36274840)
Not after a nuclear war.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Buy Well. Buy Once by Kirby64 on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:34AM (#36288829)
Sure it is. Even a relatively poor quality Quartz watch is higher accuracy than a mechanical watch, without any sort of synchronization. Really good ones are accurate to one second per year. No need for NTP at all.

If you're thinking about EMPs or something: well, I'd consider extremely accurate timekeeping to be the least of your concerns if no electronics work anymore...

[ Parent | on HN ]