<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">About time the NTP told the user what time is being served?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.</div><div><br></div><div>It should got into an extension block.</div><div><br></div><div>Two, one for time base, one for PPS source. What is the natural length of an extension block? My preference is a US-ASCII string or a UTF8 string, instead of a binary enum. "UTC", "UT1", "TAI", etc for the time base, and the name of the constellation "GPS", "GLONASS", "MASER consortium" etc for the PPS source.</div><div><br></div><div>How hard would it be for us to implement?</div><div><br></div><div>If we are getting it from a clock driver, first cut we can just get it from the .conf file. Later, we work out best ways to get it from the clock drivers.</div><div><br></div><div>If we are getting it from upstream, log WARNING if we're getting upstream time from different time bases.</div><div><br></div><div>..m</div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Mark Atwood<br>
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