lfpinit() signed or unsigned?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Mar 11 05:03:41 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > I am also baffled.  The RFC defines NTP Date Format, but then never uses it
> > anywhere.... 
> 
> That confirms that it isn't used on the wire.  I think the idea is to use it 
> as a reference to show what the shorter version is trying to represent.

I believe this is correct.  

I stumbled over this months ago and made bewildered noises about it.
Nobody responded.  I then removed the documentation of the unmused type 
from the asciidoc masters.
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