Future of 32 bit time_t?

Daniel Franke dfoxfranke at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 11:54:09 UTC 2017


https://developers.google.com/time/smear#standardsmear

On Mar 14, 2017 7:25 AM, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> > It will take me a day or two to clean things up and test some more.
>
> Looking forward to the patch.
>
> > We need to figure out how to test leap seconds.
> >
> > In particular, we need to test the smearing stuff.  It's currently using
> cos.
> >  I think google and friends switched to simple linear.  We should try to
> find
> > out if they have converged on the time-spam to smear over.
>
> Hm.  I don't know where to go to find that out.
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