On 7/8/16 4:47 PM, Saku Ytti wrote: > On 9 July 2016 at 02:27, Jared Mauch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Time is actually harder than it seems. Many bits of software break in >> unexpected ways. Expect the unexpected. > > Aye. How many have written code like this: > > start = time(); > do_something(); > elapsed = time() - start; > > Virtually all code dealing with passage of time assumes time moves > only forward, I'm amazed we don't see more issues during leap seconds. > Portable monotonic time isn't even available in many languages > standard libraries. > > Hopefully they'll decide in 2023 finally to get rid of leap seconds > from UTC. Then GPS_TIME, TAI and UTC are all same with different > static offset.
How about you run your systems on TAI or satellite time? -- Harlan Stenn <[email protected]> http://networktimefoundation.org - be a member!
