GPS rollover in HP Driver

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Aug 22 22:07:58 UTC 2017


Eric S. Raymond via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> The only other possibility I can see is that the core sync algorithms simply 
> ignore any date that isn't plausibly within a certain delta of the system
> clock date, using only its low-order bits and assuming the the ae is correct.
> This should actually be a decent heuristic except near midnight.  

I meant "assuming the date is correct".
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