Re: Mechanism to provide tai-utc.dat locally

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_BSDIMP.COM>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:35:03 -0700 (MST)

In message: <F53DB984-DB2D-47CE-ACCE-68896BB74923_at_semantic.org>
            Ashley Yakeley <ashley_at_SEMANTIC.ORG> writes:
: On Dec 27, 2006, at 06:29, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
:
: > That's a pretty bad format. Computers are binary and having
: > pseudo-decimal fields like tv_usec in timeval, tv_nsec in timespec
: > and picoseconds in Haskell is both inefficient and stupid.
: >
: > The fractional part should be a binary field, so that the width
: > can be adjusted to whatever precision and wordsize is relevant.
:
: It's impossible to accurately represent a millisecond using binary
: fractions. That would be unacceptable for most sub-second use.

Ummm, it is possible to represent sub-picoseconds accurately using
binary fractions. what are you talking about?

Warner
Received on Wed Dec 27 2006 - 14:36:57 PST

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