Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-ogud-dhc-udp-time-option-01.txt

Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Mon, 02 December 2013 18:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ntpwg] [dhcwg] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-ogud-dhc-udp-time-option-01.txt
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On Dec 2, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> Assuming the tolerance for this application is >> 1s, this won't matter, but might be worth specifying that during a leap second, the value returned shall be either the value of the prior second or the value of the next second to make it conform to most current usage.
> 
> I think the expectation is that the time will be updated with a more accurate mechanism later, and an error of 1s is not worth worrying about for typical devices, so this is almost certainly overkill.

This isn't to prevent an error of a second, but to bound the error to a second by adopting the main work arounds that are in practice today which do that.

Warner

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