nts and ntske log files

Hal Murray halmurray at sonic.net
Tue Aug 29 00:10:43 UTC 2023


James Browning said:
> The NTP solution would be to convert the mess to l_fp which
> will work for a bit less than 13 years. 

Thanks.  l_fp is the right answer.

How did you get 13 years?  I get 136.  Did you drop/typo the 6?

> My joke would be to have it as a long long of micro-seconds which would be
> good for hundreds of thousands of years.  

l_fp has 32 bits of fraction.  micro takes 20 bits.  So using micro seconds 
would gain 12 bits.  So that would be 557xxx years.


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