Driver strategy - we need to decide among incompatible goals

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Aug 15 16:14:23 UTC 2019


James Browning via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> And while I also like removing code, we've removed a lot, and I'm not
> > instantly adverse to giving the hobbyests a command option to handle
> > wraparound on their old hardware.
> 
> In that case, I would like to suggest the affixes g and G (or f) be
> reserved for 10 and 13-bit week
> GPS era rollovers in time1 . Typing in multiples of 619315200 would be
> problematic unless
> I missed some zeros in which case it is worse. hah.

That's...not a terrible idea, actually.  Do you think you could 
implement it, or would it fall to me?
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