Pivoting (or rather missing pivot)

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:54:21 -0700
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> devel at ntpsec.org said:
> > Rather than repeating myself:
> > https://lists.ntpsec.org/pipermail/devel/2017-April/004179.html   
> 
> Thanks.  Here is the key part:
> >         step - double seconds, range usually +/1 1ms, 1us or 1ns.
> >                never larger than 'gate', but for arguement assume
> >                it could be as large as 1Jan2200 - 1Jan1970  
> 
> It can be (and often is) larger than gate on the first adjustment
> when run with the -g switch.
> 
> 2200-1970 is 230.  That doesn't fit into a l_fp so you can't possibly
> get a step size that big.

Yes, but that is a different code path.

> The 2037 gets truncated so the remote server time comes back as
> 1901. 1901-1970 is -69 rather than   +67.

Different code path.

RGDS
GARY
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