Hi > On Nov 30, 2016, at 3:14 PM, Gary E. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yo Michael! > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:21:39 +0000 > Michael Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ... was just announced. >> https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/making-every-leap-second-count-with-our-new-public-NTP-servers.html?m=1 > > I sort of see where they are coming from, but this will cause problems. > > The NTP packets google sends out have no way to be marked as 'not UTC'. > Given how promiscuous people are sharing NTP chimers these 'not UTC' > chimers will get into the mix. When they diverge from the real UTC servers > it will sorely confuse NTP clients. > > I would support an RFC to mark the type a time an chimer is servings. > Not only smeared and UTC, but also TAI, UT, UT0, UT1, UT2, ET, TDT, TDB, > TT, TCG, TCB, GPS, etc…
That would probably be a good point to make on the NTP list :) The gotcha is that there is essentially zero time to approve and implement something like that before the end of next month … Bob > > RGDS > GARY > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703 > [email protected] Tel:+1 541 382 8588 > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
