Re: [Ntp] draft-ietf-ntp-roughtime-05: mixed time units

Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> Tue, 21 September 2021 04:48 UTC

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 21:47:54 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] draft-ietf-ntp-roughtime-05: mixed time units
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 9:27 PM JP Sugarbroad <taralx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I notice that DTAI and DUT1 are in milliseconds, while everything else is in microseconds. Is the extra range of a millisecond value needed?

DUT1 is only available in 10^-1s precision. DTAI is always whole
seconds. We could probably fix that to be seconds.

The extra range isn't needed, but having more decimals isn't either.

Sincerely,
Watson

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