[ntp:questions] Re: Calculating NTP timestamp in C program
Hans Aberg
haberg at math.su.se
Tue Jul 25 10:54:12 UTC 2006
In article <clcm-20060710-0005 at plethora.net>, bg_ie at yahoo.com wrote:
> I wish to write a C program which obtains the system time and hence
> uses this time to print out its ntp equivalent.
>
> Am I right in saying that the following is correct for the seconds part
> of the ntp time?
>
> long int ntp.seconds = time(NULL) + 2208988800;
>
> How might I calculate the fraction part?
Perhaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol
can be of some help.
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