[ntp:questions] Start of new GPS 1024 week epoch

David Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Thu Aug 15 05:55:39 UTC 2013


On 14/08/2013 22:07, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> David Malone writes:
>> Indeed - you need to have a timestamp within about ten years of
>> correct before you start up, otherwise the problem will be worse.  Ntp
>> has the same problem in figuring out the ntp epoch, though we've yet
>> to see an ntp timestamp wrap around.
>
> ntp-dev has a fix for this problem - while the original solution was
> "make sure the clock is correct to within ~65 years' time" the new code
> uses a "date of compile" value, and needs the system time to be either
> 10 years' before that date or up to 128 years' after that date.
>
> See http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1995 for more information
> (thanks, Juergen!).
>
> H

If you make that 9.5 years rather than 10 it might then cover the 
500-week period mentioned by Magnus.

Judging by some reports here, people may be using NTP more than 10 years 
old.  Does this fix cause a problem in that case?
-- 
Cheers,
David
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