In message <[email protected]>, Gerard Ashton writes: >The "REAL" proposal appears to include the necessary tools (when fleshed >out) but it would be easy to misapply the tools, [...]
Fiskars once won in court, arguing that people who use tools incorrectly is not their responsiblity as a maker of chain-saws. I'm going to make the same argument: My proposed API does not solve all imaginable problems relating to time, in particular it does not solve the "programmer is clueless about time" problem, but it does try to make it easier for programmers to do things right, than for them to make mistakes. But it does solve the problem that you cannot ask the operating system what time it is. -- 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
