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Simon Marlow wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 11 February 2005 01:54, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
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<pre wrap="">We are getting bogged down in the terminology here. My problem is
that, as proposed, the library will give wrong answers. Having a
nanosecond granularity library that can't even manage one second
accuracy doesn't seem useful to me. Apparently, though, I'm in the
minority here, so I'll let it go.
The comment about scheduling is not correct, because the leap year
correction is always available. To me, it is more important to get
the correct answer when, say, finding the amount of time that has
passed from one timestamp to another. I can't see the logic in a
library that returns incorrect answers, because to return correct
answers is more difficult.
I guess those people who intend to use it don't care if the interval
results are correct. I do care, but I'll have to implement it myself
since I appear to be a minority of one.
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I don't see why you claim the library will produce incorrect answers.
It will produce answers exactly as correct as the OS interfaces on which
it is based.
If you want to do accurate interval calculations then you have to use
TAI, and if you need to convert between TAI and UTC then you also need
appropriate leap second tables to hand. The library allows you to do
this, and the documentation for the library will explain exactly why you
have to use TAI if you need to do this. So what's the problem?
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The problem is that it has been stated several times on this thread
that there will be no leap second table, nor a way to use one. If
that's not correct, then there is no problem.<br>
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Cheers,
Simon
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