ntpq peers formatting needs floating point for time slots.

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Feb 4 10:50:24 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> Matthew.Selsky at twosigma.com said:
> > We need some backwards compatibility for ntp classic servers.  Eg, the
> > server has only microsecond precision.  We need to avoid adding trailing
> > zeros that are not actually significant. 
> 
> Good catch.  Thanks.
> 
> I just pushed a fix.  It's the sort of kludge that Eric won't like but I 
> don't have a better idea.

I am indeed not happy about it, but I don't have a better idea either.
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