http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/06/29/john-oliver-really-wants-you-to-enjoy-tomorrows-leap-second/
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On 2015-06-29 02:19 AM, Hal Murray wrote:
Looks to me they mean 128 bits?
How did you get that?
Er, by not thinking very clearly :-\
supported by a signed 8-octet integer in nanoseconds centered on
8*8 is 64. I didn't see anything about using two of them.
Right. My obvious error.
POSIX
Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote:
POSIX uses 32 bits of seconds and 32 bits of nanoseconds.
POSIX doesn't specify the size of time_t.
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The folks at http://www.timeanddate.com/time/leapseconds.html have a leap
second animation on the top right side of the page. I'm not sure how it
displays for you, but attached are some screen shots on my end. Cute.
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On 2015-06-29 01:47 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
The folks at http://www.timeanddate.com/time/leapseconds.html have a leap
second animation on the top right side of the page. I'm not sure how it
displays for you, but attached are some screen shots on my end. Cute.
/tvb
Looks to me they mean 128 bits?
How did you get that?
supported by a signed 8-octet integer in nanoseconds centered on
8*8 is 64. I didn't see anything about using two of them.
POSIX uses 32 bits of seconds and 32 bits of nanoseconds. That will wrap in
2038. Using all nanoseconds gets a
In message 20150629061957.aafc4406...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net, Hal Mu
rray writes:
Looks to me they mean 128 bits?
How did you get that?
supported by a signed 8-octet integer in nanoseconds centered on
8*8 is 64. I didn't see anything about using two of them.
POSIX uses 32
