hi!
the people designing ntp came up with a timestamp format which rolls over
every 136 years (weren't there already so many broken timestamp
formats?). here is the an execerpt from rfc2030 which clarifies things:
As the NTP timestamp format has been in use for the last 17 years,
it remains a possibility that it will be in use 40 years from now
when the seconds field overflows. As it is probably inappropriate
to archive NTP timestamps before bit 0 was set in 1968, a
convenient way to extend the useful life of NTP timestamps is the
following convention: If bit 0 is set, the UTC time is in the
range 1968-2036 and UTC time is reckoned from 0h 0m 0s UTC on 1
January 1900. If bit 0 is not set, the time is in the range 2036-
2104 and UTC time is reckoned from 6h 28m 16s UTC on 7 February
2036. Note that when calculating the correspondence, 2000 is not a
leap year. Note also that leap seconds are not counted in the
reckoning.
from a first look at the code it seems that the diameter dissector does not
take into account this rollover, or?
bye now!
cristian