Steve Schafer ha scritto:
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:28:49 -0600, you wrote:

I'm not sure that the original question implied *that* level of need.

I can't imagine being worried about leap seconds yet at the same time
being willing to accept the potential vagaries of any of the built-in
clocks.


POSIX realtime extensions have been developed to be high reliable.
I don't know if the implementations on general purpose operating systems like Linux are reliable, but in case of problems one can try to switch to a real time operating system.

This resources may be useful:
http://juliusdavies.ca/posix_clocks/clock_realtime_linux_faq.html


Timing is, however, a complex issue.

Steve Schafer
Fenestra Technologies Corp.
http://www.fenestra.com


Manlio Perillo
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