Cruft: There are 3 routines that convert time_t to text

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:21:59 -0700
Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> gem at rellim.com said:
> > I like checks for things that can never happen.  Somehow many of
> > them eventually do get tripped, then the error is more obvious,
> > assuming a good error message.   
> 
> I do too, but there can be too much of a good thing.  There is a real
> talent for putting in the right checks without adding too much
> clutter.

It is always a judgement call.

> That particular trap is very unlikely to go off.  I'd be happy if the
> calls to that routine were changed to use the new code and a similar
> trap were installed over there.


I'm all for calling the functions in timespecops.h.  Way too many places
where handling timespec's are one-off, each done slightly wrong.

But not this cycle, quiete period before release.  We need to keep
changes to the very simple and the very critical.

RGDS
GARY
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