Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:52:29 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t Message-ID: <35D5767D.1A2F93A2@pipeline.ch> References: <199808131721.KAA00864@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199808140040.KAA14156@mad.ct> <19980814000605.A25012@astro.psu.edu> <19980814135919.U1921@freebie.lemis.com> <19980814114525.B4001@zappo> <19980815120445.C21662@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: -snip- [and cc trimmed] > Of course, for this to make *any* sense at all, it should be a format > that everybody accepts. Otherwise we've just made the matter worse. TAI64 looks good (quotes from DJB's definition): "TAI stands for Temps Atomique International, the current international real time standard." "TAI64 represents a few hundred billion years of real time with 1-second precision." "One-second precision is inadequate for many applications. This section defines 96-bit and 128-bit formats, TAI64N and TAI64NA, with nanosecond and attosecond precision respectively. ..." More on: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/tai64.txt ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/y2k.html ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/libtai.html -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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