Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > Suppose I want to wait until some UTC date/time more than 6 months in the > future. A library routine doesn't have to compute how many seconds to wait > right now. It can break it down into chunks. Wait until the current leap > file expires, then try again using the new one. ...
AIUI timer wheels are the usual implementation, and they give you chunked timeout handing. Warner and Poul-Henning will probably correct me now :-) https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/11/23/hashed-and-hierarchical-timing-wheels/ Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Shannon, Rockall: Southeast veering south 5 to 7. Moderate or rough, becoming rough or very rough. Occasional rain. Good, occasionally poor. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
