Should two-digit years be fatal to a refclock?

[Mike]

On 2/4/19 7:10 AM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> Mark: Heads up!  Policy question ahead.
>
> The position we *could* take, which I admit I'm attracted to, is this:
>
> NTP is not a dorm-room project, it's vital infrastructure for
> life-critical systems. It's 2019 and decent refclocks are cheap, so the
> cost of having to upgrade yours to work with NTPsec is low. We think
> it's our actual *duty* to close off as many wacky failure cases as
> we can, even if that costs you $80 for a GPZDA-emitting GPS.


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I meant to mention that one reason I'm a bit more worried about this
is that the rise of hobby SBCs has made RTCless sysyems actually more
common than they were a decade ago.

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Above is your decision "life-critical", or "dorm-room" projects.  The only other nugget I see is that adding a RTC is trivial and cheap too.

Mike