On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Rob Seaman wrote: > Clive D.W. Feather wrote: > > > No, it's because there are no applications where people need to say "what > > would my GPS receiver had said in 1751?". Whereas people do need to > > represent older times in (say) POSIX time. > > Do they? Example use case from 1751?
Well, not 1751, but 32 bit POSIX time is signed so extends back before its (proleptic) epoch of 1970-01-01, and it's not unreasonable to use negative times to represent (say) timestamps on files archived from the 1960s. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES: NORTHWEST 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 AT FIRST AND LATER. MODERATE, BECOMING OCCASIONALLY SLIGHT. SQUALLY SHOWERS AT FIRST. MAINLY GOOD. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
