From: Jan Echternach <echter@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: GPS Leap Second Scheduled!
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:51:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980917135106.A18791@honshu.informatik.uni-rostock.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35FF1838.6E247F0C@his.com>; from David Feuer on Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:45:28PM -0400
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:45:28PM -0400, David Feuer wrote:
> In my opinion, the thing to do is make the POSIX time function do
> something fairly reasonable, but come up with something better (e.g. UTC
> and TAI in 64 or 128-bit fixed-point format) for newer programs.
There is a similar discussion going on in comp.std.c (Subject: C9X FCD -
7.23.2.6 Normalization of broken-down times).
See also http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/ for a proposal for a
new time API.
--
Jan
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[not found] ` <19980915100729.02790@albireo.ucw.cz>
[not found] ` <35FF1838.6E247F0C@his.com>
1998-09-17 11:51 ` Jan Echternach [this message]
1998-09-11 22:49 GPS Leap Second Scheduled! Ethan O'Connor
[not found] <no.id>
1998-09-10 6:34 ` Jamie Lokier
1998-09-11 6:18 ` Michael Shields
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1998-09-09 20:13 Colin Plumb
1998-09-09 23:45 ` Chris Wedgwood
1998-09-09 23:55 ` Chris Wedgwood
1998-09-10 8:36 ` Rogier Wolff
1998-09-10 17:05 ` Oliver Xymoron
1998-09-10 22:02 ` Ryan Moore
[not found] <299BBE59294E@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
[not found] ` <98090822315400.00819@soda>
1998-09-09 0:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
1998-09-09 8:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
[not found] ` <199809092149.RAA06993@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>
1998-09-10 1:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
1998-09-10 15:05 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
1998-09-12 19:57 ` Feuer
1998-09-09 16:35 ` David Lang
1998-09-09 4:46 Colin Plumb
1998-09-09 19:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
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