At 16:37 24-2-2012, Grant Edwards wrote: >On 2012-02-24, steve ayer <a...@handhelds.org> wrote: > > > not necessarily. you can certainly provide a device with a seed > > timestamp that will carry through an app's runtime. > >What happens when the app is idle and the processor sleeps with the >clos shut down?
You work around that. Maybe a hardware RTC? IMHO there is very little point in trying to argue time and date functions are irrelevant to a microcontroller environment. A lot of devices do need to keep track of date & time. Instead of re-inventing the wheel its better to use a different (small) C library which has these functions and stay Posix compliant. Nico Coesel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
