In message <1299636769.12189.132.camel@localhost>, Paul Sheer writes:
>Posix time
>
>Posix time is just a definition of the relationship between days and
>logical seconds: i.e. there are 86400 of them in a day and the first day
>is 1970-01-01. Posix time is a 32/64-bit (signed) logical second value.
POSIX also allows time_t to be a floating point value:
time_t and clock_t shall be integer or real-floating types.
Very little, if any, code survives compilation on a system where
time_t is a double.
Technical speaking we also need ISO-C time, which uses a looser
definition than POSIX.
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