Work item list: lfpfloat to Python

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:13:03 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Eric said:
> > Work item: The lfpfloat() function in the Python interface may be
> > dispensible. Convert the hex literal to float and divide by 1<<32
> > to scale to seconds since the NTP epoch.   
> 
> It also needs to do a pivot and/or have an option not to pivot.

It needs to be pivoted earlier.  When you put a timestamp l_fp
into a double you lose too much precision.  Only l_fp offsets
should be converted to doubles.

RGDS
GARY
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