Re: [gpsd-dev] Print offset in ntpshmmon?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo All!

> > > > -                    offset = (float(record[3]) -
> > > > float(record[4]))
> > > > +                    offset = float(record[4])
> > > 
> > > Both are pretty bad....
> > 
> > You're the expert.  Please fix it.
> 
> I already chatted with DrDaemonEye so he understands the issue.
> 
> DrDaemonEye: any progress, or should we chat some more?

DrDaemonEye reports progress, but no final resolution.  I'll monitor
the situation.

I'm not a Python geek, but this (PEP 410) looks interesting:
    https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0410/

It covers the time precision subject in Python pretty thoroughly, and I
agree with his conclusions.  Sadly PEP 410 was rejected.  Clearly
the rejector did not read and understand the proposal and his 
'counter examples' show his ignorance.

I have expected for some time that we would need to move to some sort
of arbitrary precision math, like decimal.Decimal or gmp. 

RGDS
GARY
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