Rob,
You are way more polite than I might be.
I do believe, however, that NTF's General Timestamp API project might
help POSIX out here, in that it can map other timescales to UTC,
although going the other direction means one has to know how the POSIX
system handles leap seconds.
POSIX needs at
On Dec 29, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>> A lot of code could have been changed while the ITU fiddled, e.g., Mac OS X
>> was launched in 2001.
>
> Could have, but didn’t...
>
> Of course, MacOS is largely based on legacy code...
Sixteen years ago, MacOS was a completely different oper
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:
> Warner is staging a spirited defense of POSIX. Such a stalwart champion
> deserves a more worthy cause.
>
> POSIX time_t says they don't exist. Therefore, they don't exist.
>
>
> POSIX, meet physics.
There's nothing that says that DUT1 < 0.9 is
Warner Losh wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Steve Summit wrote:
>> If we try to handle them better, two conclusions seem inescapable:
>>
>> 1. Posix-compatible time_t values will need to be smeared,
>>spreading the leap second out more gradually, to eliminate
>>sudden, unseemly
On Thu 2016-12-29T09:26:58 -0700, Warner Losh hath writ:
> How do you deal with acquiring knowledge of leap seconds after you've
> given out 'old' timestamps that might be affected by them? This is
> best described as how well you recover from the leapsecond file being
> corrupted and replaced, tho
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Steve Summit wrote:
> If we try to handle them better, two conclusions seem inescapable:
>
> 1. Posix-compatible time_t values will need to be smeared,
>spreading the leap second out more gradually, to eliminate
>sudden, unseemly jumps.
>
> 2. There needs
Warner is staging a spirited defense of POSIX. Such a stalwart champion
deserves a more worthy cause.
> POSIX time_t says they don't exist. Therefore, they don't exist.
POSIX, meet physics.
> There's millions of lines of code written to POSIX with the mistaken
> assumption that they are imple
