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Re: [Ntp] Leap second draft

Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> Sat, 30 March 2019 15:41 UTC

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 08:41:11 -0700
From: Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Leap second draft
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On Sat 2019-03-30T16:29:48+0100 Kurt Roeckx hath writ:
> I think this is all not very relevant for NTP where we care about
> the current time, not about what happened in 1972. I'm not sure
> we need all that historic information in the draft.

In that case I recommend text something like this:

Although the NTP era and time stamps use pre-existing notation for
time and can represent time before the existence of the first
implementation of NTP, the correspondence between NTP time stamps and
any external time scale is not defined for dates before [insert date
here].

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