[ntp:questions] Re: Initial Setting
mgrd
mgrd at gmx.net
Mon Apr 25 22:29:57 UTC 2005
David Schwartz wrote:
> "mgrd" <mgrd at gmx.net> wrote in message
>>>There's also the problem that RFC868 is internally inconsistent and not
>>>sufficient to document a usable time protocol.
>
>
>>Hmm, I just read RFC868.
>>I can't get the inconsistency. Could you give me a hint?
>>But the insufficiency is obvious since it's no very detailed.
>
>
> "The most important thing is, the time is the number of seconds since 00:00
> (midnight) 1 January 1900 GMT, such that the time 1 is 12:00:01 am on 1
> January 1900 GMT; this base will serve until the year 2036."
>
> A 32-bit signed value can represent rougly plus or minus 2^31 seconds,
> which is about 68 years. This would mean that this protocol can represent
> times from about 1832 to 1968. The examples include:
>
> "2,629,584,000 corresponds to 00:00 1 May 1983 GMT", and
> "-1,297,728,000 corresponds to 00:00 17 Nov 1858 GMT"
>
> Do you know any way for a 32-bit signed integer to get to 2.6 billion?
Thanks for pointing it out!
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