Name of the Application: xntp Version Number: 4.0.91 Download Size: 4541953 bytes Downloaded from: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ Operating Systems Supported: many Operating Systems Tested: unix Testing Dates tested (CPU clock set) 1999-12-31 2000-01-01 2000-02-29 Critical fragments of code tested with other dates by special algorithms. Hardware Platform: Sun Sparc OS: Solaris 2.6 Compiler: gcc Version: 2.8.1 Repairs: 9 No. of files Repaired: 13 Compilation of Patches Required: yes Results Description: 1) Tested suspicious code. 2) Repaired problem code and added documentation to ntp.h. 3) Verified ntpd works on critical Y2K dates. Comments: 1) Errors were found in improper use of tm_year within struct tm, calculations that did not support year 2000 as a leap year (it truly is, despite any unchanged comments remaining in the NTP source), and some incorrect date calculations, while not traditional Y2K errors, would break in the year 2000. 2) include/ntpd.h Added some definitions and documentation about the right way of doing things. Definitions used by most, if not all, of the Y2K repairs. Cautions: 1) Some of the Y2K repairs were to reference clock drivers that we did not have the local hardware to test. While I believe the changes are sound, they really need to be tested. This includes: refclock_arc.c refclock_heath.c refclock_hpgps.c Also, parseutil/dcfd.c is another hardware dependent module that was repaired without live testing. Non-Y2K Problems Observed: 1) Inconsistent casts of variables containing time values may make expansion to 64 bit integer values in a portable manner difficult. 2) libntp/caltontp.c: Has logic I believe will fail starting in year 2100 or so. Left unchanged/untested as it works well beyond basic NTP 2036 limit checked by check_y2k.c. If NTP is implemented on 64-bit machines, this should be fixed 3) ntpd/refclock_acts.c: ACTS time format has changed somewhat since the code was written. In particular the '*' '#' character switch no longer occurs... only '*' is typed. NOTE: Author (falsely) stated Y2K is NOT a leap year when it really is. TRUTH: ACTS will go beyond Y2K: it uses FourDigitYear % 100 values for year so year 2000 will revert to "00". 4) ntpd/refclock_oncore.c Some very strange logic in manipulating year values: 1122 instance->pp->year = buf[6]*256+buf[7]; Multiply by 256???? Response from PHK: The entire protocol is binary, the year is a 16 bit quantity which according to the manual can have the range 1998-2018.