1 Name of the Application: xntp
5 Download Size: 4541953 bytes
7 Downloaded from: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
9 Operating Systems Supported: many
11 Operating Systems Tested: unix
15 Dates tested (CPU clock set)
21 Critical fragments of code tested with other dates by special
24 Hardware Platform: Sun Sparc
34 No. of files Repaired: 13
37 Compilation of Patches Required: yes
41 1) Tested suspicious code.
43 2) Repaired problem code and added documentation to ntp.h.
45 3) Verified ntpd works on critical Y2K dates.
50 1) Errors were found in improper use of tm_year within struct tm,
51 calculations that did not support year 2000 as a leap year
52 (it truly is, despite any unchanged comments remaining in
53 the NTP source), and some incorrect date calculations, while
54 not traditional Y2K errors, would break in the year 2000.
57 Added some definitions and documentation about the right way
58 of doing things. Definitions used by most, if not all, of
63 1) Some of the Y2K repairs were to reference clock drivers that
64 we did not have the local hardware to test. While I believe
65 the changes are sound, they really need to be tested.
72 Also, parseutil/dcfd.c is another hardware dependent module that
73 was repaired without live testing.
75 Non-Y2K Problems Observed:
77 1) Inconsistent casts of variables containing time values may
78 make expansion to 64 bit integer values in a portable manner
82 Has logic I believe will fail starting in year 2100 or so.
83 Left unchanged/untested as it works well beyond basic NTP 2036
84 limit checked by check_y2k.c.
85 If NTP is implemented on 64-bit machines, this should be fixed
87 3) ntpd/refclock_acts.c:
88 ACTS time format has changed somewhat since the code was written.
89 In particular the '*' '#' character switch no longer occurs...
92 NOTE: Author (falsely) stated Y2K is NOT a leap year when it
95 TRUTH: ACTS will go beyond Y2K: it uses FourDigitYear % 100 values
96 for year so year 2000 will revert to "00".
99 4) ntpd/refclock_oncore.c
100 Some very strange logic in manipulating year values:
101 1122 instance->pp->year = buf[6]*256+buf[7];
105 The entire protocol is binary, the year is a 16 bit quantity
106 which according to the manual can have the range 1998-2018.