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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:53:21 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        rwatson@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a proposed callout API 
Message-ID:  <13587.1164869601@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:48:11 MST." <20061129.234811.-1625879484.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20061129.234811.-1625879484.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" write
s:

>I'd also argue that UTC is just a printing convention anyway.  Keeping
>time in a TAI-like timescale and doing the conversion to UTC when UTC
>timestamps are necessary would be worth considering, but there are
>some costs with doing this that might prove to be too high since UTC
>is used a lot and any TAI-like thing is only used for the 'core'
>timing stuff.

As far as I know we have no sleepers on UTC scale in the kernel and
nobody has said otherwise throughout this discussion.

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