Should two-digit years be fatal to a refclock?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Feb 4 23:19:47 UTC 2019


Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> You can have all these errors with four digit years.

Of course we can.  I'm not claiming that disqualifying these sources
with 2-digit year reports will solve the problem, just reduce the
number of failure modes and the difficulty of reasoning about them.
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