Re: GPS Leap Second Scheduled!
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 01:30:31 -0700 (PDT)
> > > Of course, the most obvious mistake is using UTC to measure the time
> > > between events, and that'll just keep on being made.
> >
> > Of course, which is why it is important that one can get either UTC
> > or TAI from whatever format applies.
>
> I'm not sure whether there are more programs which break down time() values
> manually (as said by POSIX) or programs which use time() for measuring time
> between events. Breaking the latter case seems to be more problematic in my
> eyes...
>
I don't think so... there are an awful lot of systems that use time_t
values as part of data interchange. Most likely, if UTC vs TAI
matters for time intervals, you really want finer granularity than
seconds, and hence time_t is too coarse.
-hpa
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