Gary E. Miller <[email protected]>: > Yo Eric! > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:44:20 -0400 > "Eric S. Raymond" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Achim Gratz <[email protected]>: > > > I don't think ntpd needs to do any pivoting _except_ at startup > > > time, where it is unavoidable and it should attempt to do anything > > > after it has started up. > > > > Huh? Potentially you need to apply a pivot to every packet that > > comes in; different sources could even have different epochs. > > Not really. 2s complement fixes it for packet up to many years > apart. Remember, all ntpd uses, after the first time, is time deltas.
I don't understand this remark. We're being shipped timestamps from
upstream, not merely deltas.
> > Instead of trying to use this for precise time, we could try using a
> > Date just at startup to figure out what era we are in.
>
> Except for ntpd that is not net connected. A more common condition
> than I would have thought.
I want to make that case work better too. Doesn't mean this couldn't be useful
to a normal client-only setup.
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