Re: NTP_EPOCH_OFFSET off one hour

Hi, all!

As Martin pointed out, NTP_EPOCH_OFFSET (in CVS) is probably off by one 
hour. This is probably not a problem until someone uses ccRTP on one end 
and some other library/application on the other end and cares about the 
RTP/NTP timestamp correspondence.

As Martin mentions, Boost agrees with him; the output of this test 
program excerpt follows:

@@
const uint32 NTP_EPOCH_OFFSET = static_cast<uint32>(2208992400ul);

using namespace boost::posix_time;
using namespace boost::gregorian;
time_period ntp_epoch_offset( ptime( date(1900, Jan, 1), seconds(0) ), 
ptime( date(1970, Jan, 1), seconds(0) ) );
BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( boost::uint32_t( 
ntp_epoch_offset.length().total_seconds() ), NTP_EPOCH_OFFSET );
@@
+++

test_rtp_session.cpp(61): error in "rtp_ntp": check boost::uint32_t( 
ntp_epoch_offset.length().total_seconds() ) == NTP_EPOCH_OFFSET failed 
[2208988800 != 2208992400]

+++

Other RTP libraries agree too (from 
http://www.openmash.org/lxr/source/rtp/ntp-time.h):

@@
/*
 * Number of seconds between 1-Jan-1900 and 1-Jan-1970
 */
#define GETTIMEOFDAY_TO_NTP_OFFSET 2208988800UL
@@


With the highest regard,
\Mattias Seeman


Martin Runge wrote:
> Hi everybody on the list,
>
> I think the NTP_EPOCH_OFFSET in private.h has 3600 seconds too much. 3600 s == 
> 1 hour, so it looks like a timezone problem, but it isn't.
>
> I verified it in two ways:
>
> 1)
> from the leap seconds file from http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html 
> 2272060800      10      # 1 Jan 1972
> says Jan, 1st 1972 had 2272060800 seconds passed since 1.1.1900 00:00:00h
>
> 1972 was a leap year, so 1970 and 1971 both had 365 days and therefore
>
> 2* 365 * 24 *3600 seconds = 6307200 seconds
>
> 2208992400 + 6307200 = 2272064400
> that is 3600 s (==1 hour) more than in the leap seconds file.
>
> 2)
> boost_date_time:
> long h = now.tv_sec / 3600;
> long s = now.tv_sec % 3600;
> long m = s / 60;
> s = s % 60;
> unsigned us = now.tv_usec;
>     
> boost::posix_time::time_duration td(hours(h) 
>                                                              + minutes(m) 
>                                                              + seconds(s) 
>                                                              + microsec(us));
>   
> boost::posix_time::ptime boost_time;
> boost_time = ptime(boost::gregorian::date(1970, Jan, 1), td); 
>
> cerr << "Boost Time: " << boost_time << endl;
>
> => shows exactly the result I would expect from the NTP offset in the leap 
> seconds file.
>
> best regards
> Martin
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