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| author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2015-02-10 13:10:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2015-02-10 13:10:28 +0000 |
| commit | 12fe76b6b4aef57f39484e7cd4ece82d516a283d (patch) | |
| tree | 143d44adaabc479b4675d43b47cd2078004dcd7b | |
| parent | 8b91fc494fbb92372195cdbf61ed2ebfcab2d0db (diff) | |
Document that RFC 5905 (ie. NTP protocol) has a limit which will be
hit before Y2038.
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 b/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 index bf990d920a8..3dfe39aaeee 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: rdate.8,v 1.36 2013/04/19 19:14:46 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: rdate.8,v 1.37 2015/02/10 13:10:27 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: rdate.8,v 1.4 1996/04/08 20:55:17 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1994 Christos Zoulas @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 19 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 10 2015 $ .Dt RDATE 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ which does not correctly account for leap seconds. .It Fl n Use SNTP (RFC 5905) instead of the RFC 868 time protocol. This is the default. +This protocol counts 32 bits of seconds from January 1, 1900 +and will rollover in March 2036. .It Fl o Use an RFC 868 TCP protocol server instead of SNTP. This protocol is obsolete as it is not capable of representing |