Juergen Kosel <[email protected]> writes:

>Hello,

>Harlan Stenn schrieb:
>>>>> In article <[email protected]>, Juergen Kosel 
>>>>> <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> And I also don't understand what you mean by "computing time is a concern".
>> Is the overhead of a subroutine call that significant in your application?

>it would be a waste of computing time to convert the reference clock
>time into the format guessed year, month day, hour, ... to call the
>subroutine refclock_process(), which would convert it back.

Oh dear. The time taken is about 1 ns on amodern CPU. Instead you waste
seconds and possibly hours drinking your coffee and chatting to friends
while you r computer waits for you, and you are worried about ns in order
to make an orderly API for the refclocks. 




>Greetings
>       Juergen

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