[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I wish to write a C program which obtains the system time and hence
uses this time to print out its ntp equivalent.
Am I right in saying that the following is correct for the seconds part
of the ntp time?
It would have been helpful if you had describes to us what "ntp time"
is. It's not defined by the C standard, and so it's not considered
common knowledge on comp.lang.c.
From reading http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7emills/leap.html
I get the idea that ntp time is given as
the number of seconds since 0h 1 January 1900
long int ntp.seconds = time(NULL) + 2208988800;
Several problems with the above:
- ntp.seconds is not a valid variable name, as it contains a period.
- time(NULL) may be the number of weeks since the fall of Rome
that is, it is not necessarily a count of seconds
and it is not necessarily based on the Unix epoch.
- You may overflow the long int.
How might I calculate the fraction part?
The difftime function returns a floating point value in seconds, that
may or may not include a fraction of a second.
C doesn't guarantee that you will get a time stamp accurate to the
second, let alone the fraction of a second.
C also doesn't guarantee that leap seconds will be properly implemented,
so you can't be sure whether or not your NTP time will be accurate.
On the whole, you are better off receiving advice in a forum that can
tell you about the intricacies of time handling on your particular platform.
--
Simon.
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