Pierpaolo Bernardi <[email protected]> asks: > Why not use the TAI epoch instead, as to not multiply needlessly epochs.
The Epoch is not important, and for reasons of debugging programmer mistakes, preferably clearly visibly different from other magic numbers. In message <[email protected]>, Gerard Ashton writes: >For the smallest time resolution required, [...] >The time for light to travel this distance is about 3 as, or about 2^-58 s. That still leaves 54 bits of integer seconds using the binary128 format, that should be plenty for the forseeable past and future. -- 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. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
