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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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