lfpinit() signed or unsigned?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 23:30:43 -0800
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> I'd expect there would be one place that converts ntp to unix and one
> place that converts unix to ntp.  Actually, the latter isn't
> necessary except maybe for debugging.  You don't really need ntp to
> unix because you are going to subtract now to get a delta.  You can
> get that by converting now to ntp and subtracting that.

Unix time needs to be converted to l_fp when it is sent out over the
wire.  For example, in ntpd/ntp_packetstamp.c.  That is a place that
does direct conversion to NTP Epoch and also uses the macro.

RGDS
GARY
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