Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:13:45 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody involved with ISO C standardization ? Message-ID: <41F14659.8040003@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <30924.1106323869@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <30924.1106323869@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I just read another brain-dead proposal for a new timeformat > which appearantly is in the ISO C queue and I would really > like if we can avoid having another damn mistake in that area. > (http://david.tribble.com/text/c0xlongtime.html) I tried to figure out what was wrong with the proposal, and came up with this: "The longtime_t type represents a system time as an integral number of ticks elaped since the beginning of the long time epoch. Each tick is two nanoseconds in length. The epoch begins at {AD 2001-01-01 00:00:00.000 Z}. Long time values represent dates across the range of {AD 1601-01-01 00:00:00 Z} to {AD 2401-01-01 00:00:00 Z} within the proleptic Gregorian calendar." [ Ugh. :-) ] -- -Chuck
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