Re: bin/13578 (ntpdate stuck in the 1930's)

[dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/13578; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/13578 (ntpdate stuck in the 1930's)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:40:15 +0100

 On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:07:16 +0000 (UTC)
 dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: ntpdate stuck in the 1930's
 > 
 > Feedback mail bounced, someone else will have to check (anyone can do this
 > if they don't mind messing up their clock...)
 
 Sure. I set my clock to today in 1901. Running ntpdate brought me even
 further back, to Thu Jan 16, 1873. So I'd say it isn't fixed. ;)
 Starting from somewhere in february 1941, ntpdate does the right thing
 (2^31 seconds later than the date 1873, and also 2^31 seconds ago).
 (This was on NetBSD/amd64 5.99.7, updated and built yesterday.)
 
 dieter