Zefram wrote: > Steve Summit wrote: >> And this is eerily similar to the idea of using a struct >> timespec with a nonnormalized tv_nsec field. > > For that matter, tm_sec==60 is the same class of trick too. We're just > varying at which digit position we stuff in an out-of-radix value.
Yes, but the advantage of a nonnormalized tv_nsec field is that it can be used with "legacy" structures which have "seconds since the epoch" in the tv_sec field. On the other hand, this may break existing applications which aren't aware that the number in tv_nsec can exceed 1000000000, so those might display strange timestamps. ;-) Martin _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
