On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Christopher Nelson wrote: > It's an embedded system. The one I manufacture today can have today > (or this year) in it but I'll never touch it again to change the > initial time setting. One thought I had was periodically write the > time to a file and use that file to initialize the clock at startup > before using NTP.
If your system uses a 32-bit time_t, you shouldn't have to worry about this. If your system hasn't been built yet, obviously it will never experience a time earlier than 2008-01-19T03:00Z, and it will break anyway after 2038-01-19T03:14Z. That should be enough to nail down which NTP era to use. (Interesting -- as I write this it is almost exactly 30 years from the End of Unix Time.) If you do have 64-bit time_t, why not just read your filesystem's timestamp on the drift file? ---- Michael Deutschmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
