Driver strategy - we need to decide among incompatible goals

[James Browning]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 9:14 AM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

It would almost certainly fall to someone who is not me. I have made two
attempts to work on the ntpd IIRC. Both rainbow control and the microjson
conversion solidly failed in the end.
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