Do we need a few new types?

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Mar 11 13:55:06 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> I think we want something like ntp_time32_t and ntp_time64_t.
> 
> I'm looking for something that will tell the reader that it's a seconds since 
> NTP epoch, parallel but different from a POSIX time_t.

Reasonable.  If you eantee to create and speread around, say, ntp_secs32_t
and ntp_secs64_t, I would not object.
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