[FSPA] Buying tickets for Pinburgh - Urgent

[Kevin Stone]

Many servers don't synch correctly, or aren't configured right.  NIST 800-53 has an actual set of controls regarding time synching and how to ensure servers are using and properly checking that their server time is within a certain range.  Commercial companies probably don't care as much, they set it once and forget.  Even a couple seconds could make a difference if someone is looking at their phone or computer clock waiting for the 12:00 to show up.  Ergo, F5 for two minutes, lol.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan O'Toole [mailto:ethan at 757.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 10:39 AM
To: Kevin Stone via FSPA
Cc: Kevin Stone
Subject: Re: [FSPA] Buying tickets for Pinburgh - Urgent

> I think many people didn’t realize that there is not a standard clock 
> out there, your phone isn’t the same as ShowClix server time which was 
> probably set by some admin using his/her phone and not a stratum time 
> server, so everything went on sale prior to someone’s phone that said 
> 12:00.  Always start 2 minutes early.

Ehh most cell cites I think use high precision GPS timing to sync the 
TDMA/CDMA data transmissions, your phone is probably really accurate 
:-)

Any decent sized website should have easy access to pretty accurate time. 
Outside providers like nist, or a Pi and a GPS module will do. There are 
more expensive units that do CDMA (great if you don't have access to sky 
for GPS antenna).

But always show up early and F5 the hell out of it.


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: Ethan O'Toole