Should two-digit years be fatal to a refclock?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> What's wrong with just adding 2000 to 2 digit years?  We are in the 2000s now 
> so we don't have to consider the 1900 case any more.  I'd be happy to 
> reconsider dropping support for 2-digit drivers in another 30 years.

Grrr. Smacks of kicking the can down the road rather than attacking the problem
and excluding at least some error cases.

> There is another roll-over consideration we should add to the list.  That's 
> the GPS 1024 week tangle.
> 
> Where should that list live?
>   2 digit years
>   32 bit time_t
>   1024 week GPS

I wrote this a while back:

Rollover issues in time sources: docs/rollover.adoc
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