[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#680979: ntpdate doesn't deal well with the future

[Andreas Kloeckner]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

consider this session:

# date -s "jul 9, 2131"
Mo 9. Jul 00:00:00 EDT 2131
# ntpdate ntp1.ptb.de
15 Aug 20:01:08 ntpdate[31400]: step time server 192.53.103.108 offset
539812826.581089 sec

After this, the current system time is in the year 2148, which is not
quite the desired effect. :)

Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  dpkg         1.16.4.3
ii  libc6        2.13-33
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1c-3
ii  netbase      5.0

Versions of packages ntpdate recommends:
pn  lockfile-progs  <none>

ntpdate suggests no packages.

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