On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:29, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > I would like your comments on this API proposal, if we can agree > that it workable, I am willing to push it, hard, in the UNIX world.
FWIW, I like it and I wish we will have something like this in a not to distant future. Only a small nit: > A IEEE binary128 number containing time on the TAI timescale > counted in SI seconds since 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC. The exact > epoch is not imporant, but it is a good idea to make it different > from all other currently used epochs, to make programmer mistakes > clearly visible. Why not use the TAI epoch instead, as to not multiply needlessly epochs. > ]] int tai_time(realtime_t *timestamp, double *error); Or, if you don't use the TAI epoch, then it would be better not to use the tai_ prefix. (BTW, first message to the list. Lurking for some months. Hi all) P. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
