Should two-digit years be fatal to a refclock?

Achim Gratz Stromeko at nexgo.de
Tue Feb 5 18:40:44 UTC 2019


Eric S. Raymond via devel writes:
> 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.

I maintain it does not much more than giving you a warm fuzzy feeling.
There may be legitimate reasons to drop these refclocks, but just the
fact they only deliver the last two digits of the year isn't one of them
(at least not as the sole reason).


Regards,
Achim.
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