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| author | Denys Vlasenko | 2023-01-18 18:04:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko | 2023-01-18 18:04:22 +0100 |
| commit | 1040f78176c7dad57aadbbd023e8ac094606ac25 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c074e0960fe2b8c1ab44ebee6c51170de9c9b14 | |
| parent | 479bd7af0d24d123326c1ceb447e015e9e2955d7 (diff) | |
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ntpd: correct comment: 2^-20 is ~1 microsecond (confused with 10^-20)
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | networking/ntpd.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/networking/ntpd.c b/networking/ntpd.c index db04eb2..c7519b8 100644 --- a/networking/ntpd.c +++ b/networking/ntpd.c @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ step_time(double offset) /* This code adds floating point value on the order of 1.0 * to a value of ~4 billion (as of years 203x). * With 52-bit mantissa, "only" 20 bits of offset's precision - * are used (0.01 attosecond), the rest is lost. + * are used (~1 microsecond), the rest is lost. * Some 200 billion years later, when tvc.tv_sec would have * 63 significant bits, the precision loss would be catastrophic, * a more complex code would be needed. |