Yo Hal! On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:39:13 -0800 Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> > Everything still fits. At least until 2038. 7FFFFFFFu is
> > 2147483647 which as a time_t is "Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 PST 2038".
>
> There are two issues.
> Unix time stamps overflow 31 bits in 2038.
> NTP time stamps overflow 32 bits in 2036.
Yeah, I see that now. But as you pointed out, NTP time is already
modulo, so it only fails immediately after the rollover.
But that rollover is gonna be rough...
I added your note as a comment in include/ntp_fp.h
RGDS
GARY
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