A quick ntp question!

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Does anyone on the list know what date/time format is used by ntp?

In particular, I'm interested in knowing if ntp exchanges a simple 
"seconds-since-epoch" value and leaves accounting of leap seconds to 
end-systems, or if ntp exchanges actual yyyy/mm/dd_hh:mm:ss.fffff 
values.

TIA.

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