Delivery Of Tablet I Am Using As A UTC Clock
[ Friday May 17th 2019 at 2:53 pm ]
My second tablet has arrived! I am really pleased. I ordered this about 10 days ago. It has arrived quickly from China.
I program this web site using UTC (equivalent to the timezone GMT). Since it would help me so much to have a clock matching the date and time of my servers (including seconds) I ordered a tablet to do this. This is especially helpful when troubleshooting and performing quality assurance testing.
I was originally thinking of a dedicated clock with network time protocol. My original idea was similar to a lock would see at a train station. This quickly provided to be unnecessarily expensive and not a good use of money. The alternate option is obvious: Technology has caught up to where a tablet with a 10 inch screen works really well. A large clock app that uses network time protocol is all that is necessary.
I will need to decide what app I choose. I also plan to add a screen protector to discourage the tablet from cracking. Then I will be good to go. I am pleased. This is one step forward and crucial to my plans with how important my web site is to these.