s...@ucolick.org said: > This idea pushes extra complexity into every implementation of low level > kernel-space software, firmware, and hardware. That's nice as a policy for > full employment of programmers, but it's hard to justify by any other > metric. Instead those low level places should be as simple as possible, and > that means making the underlying precision time scale, and thus any > broadcast distributions of a precision time scale, as simple as possible.
Has anybody done any serious thinking about fixing the POSIX problem? I assume the first step would be to have the kernel keep time in a non leaping time scale. Is UT1 the obvious choice? Would we need a version of ntp that used that time scale? (or some non-leaping time scale) I assume the file dates could be fixed with a flag day and one pass over the whole file system. I think the hard part would be time-stamps in network protocols or data bases. Consider tar files or rsync. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs