[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Documentation improvements.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
c2c28bef by Eric S. Raymond at 2016-09-17T21:21:52-04:00
Documentation improvements.

- - - - -


2 changed files:

- devel/tour.txt
- libntp/ntp_calendar.c


Changes:

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devel/tour.txt
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--- a/devel/tour.txt
+++ b/devel/tour.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,13 @@ seconds part - how it's interpreted depends on which member of a union
 is used.
 
 The comments in libntp/ntp_calendar.c are pretty illuminating about
-calendar representations.
+calendar representations.  A high-level point they don't make is
+that ignoring time cycles in l_fp is exactly how NTP gets around the
+Y2K38 problem. As long as the average clock skew between machines
+is much less than the length of a calendar cycle (which it generally
+will be, by a factor of at least five million) we can map all incoming
+timestamps from whatever cycle into the nearest time im modular
+arithmetic relative to the cycle length.
 
 === vint64 ===
 


=====================================
libntp/ntp_calendar.c
=====================================
--- a/libntp/ntp_calendar.c
+++ b/libntp/ntp_calendar.c
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
  * Written by Juergen Perlinger <perlinger at ntp.org> for the NTP project.
  * Copyright 2015 by the NTPsec project contributors
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: NTP
+ *
+ * There is more about these types and calculations in the internals tour
+ * document distributed with the code.
  */
 #include <config.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
@@ -512,7 +515,7 @@ ntpcal_split_eradays(
 	 * Split off calendar cycles, using floor division in the first
 	 * step. After that first step, simple division does it because
 	 * all operands are positive; alas, we have to be aware of the
-	 * possibe cycle overflows for 100 years and 1 year, caused by
+	 * possible cycle overflows for 100 years and 1 year, caused by
 	 * the additional leap day.
 	 */
 	n400 = days / GREGORIAN_CYCLE_DAYS;



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