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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:36:11 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        phk@phk.freebsd.dk
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a proposed callout API 
Message-ID:  <20061129.233611.-1540390902.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <6194.1164756521@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <200611281631.19224.jhb@freebsd.org> <6194.1164756521@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Here's a decoder ring...

In message: <6194.1164756521@critter.freebsd.dk>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: given wall-clock (UTC) time.

UTC has leapseconds, and likely is adjusted by ntp.

: Others want to sleep on the absolute (TAI) timescale, such as TCP

TAI has no leapseconds and is a perfect monotonic timescale.

Warner



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