From: "Geo." 

"mike"  wrote in message
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> I'm not telling you that *you* have to do what we do, I am merely
> describing how the easy syncing of clocks make our lives much easier in
> a distributed environment.

I have no doubt that it does make it easier, but the software folks should
have found a more reliable way since they are working in a distributed
environment is all I'm trying to point out.

I used NTmail as an example, because it is massively multithreaded with
lots of things happening at the exact same time they had to provide a way
to isolate a scattered string of log entries so a transaction could be
tracked. Is this not exactly the sort of problem you are describing? Would
it not work better if the developers were forced to use something besides
timestamps?

This is like the unix scripting attitude, because they can fix stuff with a
script they never address the real problem that the software lacks the
functionality. That's all I'm saying, I'm not saying the solution doesn't
work, just that it's suboptimal.

Geo.

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