On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 15:17:00 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >You're right of course. I still stand by my assertion that most of the formats >are stupid, and the standard SMF format is no prize-winner. Milliseconds (or >even microseconds) since the start of some era would have fit conveniently in >64 bits, would have given one more digit of precision, would have made >interval calculations trivial, would have put off partial conversion to a >civil format from real-time to report-time, and would not have wrapped until >well after we are all retired. > Which would be fine provided there were a corequisite facility to convert that format to civil time display. And correct for last Sunday. A POSIX C program could do it most easily, but I suspect there's pervasive antipathy to POSIX C.
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