Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:28:46 +0100 From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody involved with ISO C standardization ? Message-ID: <AB5E6234-6BE2-11D9-97D3-000A95C893E4@lassitu.de> In-Reply-To: <33041.1106331489@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <33041.1106331489@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Am 21.01.2005 um 19:18 schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp: > In message <41F14659.8040003@mac.com>, Chuck Swiger writes: >> 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." > > Lets take just the two worst mistakes: Maybe the author of these proposals hasn't had the opportunity to enjoy Calendrical Calculations by Reingold and Dershowitz. (Their homepage is at http://emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/index.shtml) Stefan -- Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Fon +49 170 346 0140
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