In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.