In message <20061227092358.GA18670_at_finch-staff-1.thus.net>, "Clive D.W. Feather
" writes:
>M. Warner Losh said:
>WG14 is willing in principle to make changes to time_t, up to and including
>completely replacing it by something else. *BUT* it needs a complete and
>consistent proposal and, preferably, experience with it.
>
>Any proposal has got to deal with a whole load of issues, many of which
>haven't been properly documented. For example, it should be possible to add
>and subtract times and intervals (e.g. "what time is 14 months and 87 days
>from now?").
... which is exactly the kind of thing you can not do with any
{origin+offset} format, due to leap seconds.
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Received on Wed Dec 27 2006 - 01:48:59 PST