What's the story on day/year from refclocks?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> I have 2 devices with GPS wrap around glitches.
> 
> One is a HP/Lucent box.  It gets the date from the text string.  Fudging 
> works.
> 
> The other is NMEA.  It gets the right time and the current date, ignoring the 
> date in the text.

There's magic code in the NMEA driver that computes the year from
other dare components based on some calendrical trick I don't
understand. A comment notes that it will fail in 2399.

Under consideration for 1.0, once I *do* undertstand it: making all
refclock drivers use this.
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