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Re: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: CLOCK_TAI (was NTPv5: big picture)

Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki@meinberg.de> Fri, 08 January 2021 15:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ntp] Antw: [EXT] Re: CLOCK_TAI (was NTPv5: big picture)
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Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Protocols shouldn’t concern themselves with what “most systems” use.

Maybe not, but at least they should have the final use cases in mind.

> Are we going to change from big-endian to little-endian when the majority of systems use that?

That would cause similar confusion as starting to change the scale of
the time stamps. ;-)

> But in the case of timescale, we should go with whatever is the most universally (losslessly) convertible.

Maybe, but why have to call it NTP if such basic things are changed?


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