Vitaly Magerya scripsit: > My argument is this: all useful things you can do with TAI, but > cannot do with current-jiffy, can (and should) be done using a > proper date library (the one that reports 23:59:60 on leap seconds). > Since you can't implement such a library using only TAI (you need > leap second and timezone tables), and since it's problematic to > obtain TAI on many current systems, I argue that R7RS-small should > only provide a timer (current-jiffy), and R7RS-big should provide > a full date library.
I think there is utility to providing a timestamp of modest accuracy and precision for applications like logging, which is why I proposed this procedure in the first place. -- A witness cannot give evidence of his John Cowan age unless he can remember being born. [email protected] --Judge Blagden http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
