From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 15 04:53:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20489 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 04:53:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.pipeline.ch (freefall.pipeline.ch [195.134.128.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20484 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 04:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre@pipeline.ch) Received: from pipeline.ch ([195.134.140.3]) by freefall.pipeline.ch (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA154; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:51:34 +0200 Message-ID: <35D5767D.1A2F93A2@pipeline.ch> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:52:29 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t References: <199808131721.KAA00864@antipodes.cdrom.com> <199808140040.KAA14156@mad.ct> <19980814000605.A25012@astro.psu.edu> <19980814135919.U1921@freebie.lemis.com> <19980814114525.B4001@zappo> <19980815120445.C21662@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: -snip- [and cc trimmed] > Of course, for this to make *any* sense at all, it should be a format > that everybody accepts. Otherwise we've just made the matter worse. TAI64 looks good (quotes from DJB's definition): "TAI stands for Temps Atomique International, the current international real time standard." "TAI64 represents a few hundred billion years of real time with 1-second precision." "One-second precision is inadequate for many applications. This section defines 96-bit and 128-bit formats, TAI64N and TAI64NA, with nanosecond and attosecond precision respectively. ..." More on: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/tai64.txt ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/y2k.html ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/libtai.html -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message