On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 03:20:13PM +0300, Евгений Никишин wrote:
> I am currently working on the Y2036 problem. My app receives the current
> time from an NTPv4 compatible server (ntpd). As far as I understand, the
> ntpd server response contains a timestamp in NTP Timestamp format (i.e. as a
> combination of Seconds and Fraction). I want to change it to NTP Date
> Format, but I don't understand if it is supported by the standard. Could you
> clarify whether or not there are any packet header parameters that allow
> querying the time in NTP Date Format (i.e. as a combination of Era Number,
> Era Offset and Fraction).
NTPv4 doesn't exchange the era number. It's a feature that was
proposed for NTPv5, but that's likely too far in the future to be
available.
In your client you can hardcode a minimum NTP timestamp (e.g. from the
build time) and add 2**32 seconds to any timestamp smaller than that.
That should work as long as you update/rebuild the application at least
once per ~136 years.
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Miroslav Lichvar
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