Re: [Ntp] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8877 (7012)

For the relevant reference: RFC 5905, page 13, Section 6 data types:

   In the date and timestamp formats, the prime epoch, or base date of
   era 0, is 0 h 1 January 1900 UTC, when all bits are zero.

Warner

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 8:38 AM <Greg.Dowd=40microchip.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
wrote:

> Please note that the NTP epoch is Jan 1 1900.  The original text is
> correct.
>
>
> Greg Dowd  Microchip - Freq & Time Div.
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> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8877, "Guidelines
> for Defining Packet Timestamps".
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> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7012
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> --------------------------------------
> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Nikolai Malykh <nmalykh@ieee.org>
>
> Section: 4.2
>
> Original Text
> -------------
>    Wraparound:
>       This time format wraps around every 2^(32) seconds, which is
>       roughly 136 years.  The next wraparound will occur in the year
>       2036.
>
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>    Wraparound:
>       This time format wraps around every 2^(32) seconds, which is
>       roughly 136 years.  The next wraparound will occur in the year
>       2106.
>
>
> Notes
> -----
> 1970+136=2106, not 2036
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC8877 (draft-ietf-ntp-packet-timestamps-09)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Guidelines for Defining Packet Timestamps
> Publication Date    : September 2020
> Author(s)           : T. Mizrahi, J. Fabini, A. Morton
> Category            : INFORMATIONAL
> Source              : Network Time Protocols
> Area                : Internet
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
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