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Cc: rwatson@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: a proposed callout API 
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In message: <13587.1164869601@critter.freebsd.dk>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: 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.

Then never mind, that solve that problem :-)

Warner