l_fp, time, calendar

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat Mar 25 22:49:45 UTC 2017


fw at fwright.net said:
> Oh, please, not more timespec crap.  The timeval and timespec stuff was just
> a workaround for the lack of 64-bit integer support in C.  Once you can
> count on 64-bit integers, then integer nanoseconds is a much cleaner format.
>  A signed 64-bit nanosecond count has a range of +/- 292 years. 

Neat.  Thanks.

Any hints that POSIX is interested?  Are there any library/packages or macros 
that we can steal/use?  (Much of the code I've been cleaning up is dealing 
with system interfaces.)

Eric: If you are keeping a NTP version 5 list, this should go in it.
 

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