In message: <[email protected]> Neon John <[email protected]> writes: : On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:57:33 -0700 (MST), "M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]> : wrote: : : >In message: <[email protected]> : > "Robert Darlington" <[email protected]> writes: : >: Okay, not very fun. I was hoping to see ...58,59,60,00. Instead my : >: system ticked :59 twice. Here's the output of my not so very : >: scientific logs (up arrow, enter, over and over): : > : >That's the correct output. It isn't possible to tick 60 with a POSIX : >time_t, so second 59 is replayed so that we don't cross a day : >boundary. : > : >Warner : > : : I wonder how application software handled that. Say, a transaction processing : machine handling a few thousand transactions a second where the time stamp : matters. What did the high res timer do?
Same thing it normally does... : I'm thinking about, for example, stock trading where the first bid wins. : Sub-second resolution is needed there, I think. That's one of many reasons why I think that leap seconds are fundamentally incompatible with POSIX. : I wonder if this was a mini-Y2K and folks haven't realized it yet? :) Warner : John : -- : John De Armond : See my website for my current email address : http://www.neon-john.com : http://www.johndearmond.com <-- best little blog on the net! : Tellico Plains, Occupied TN : Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency. : : : _______________________________________________ : time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] : To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts : and follow the instructions there. : : _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
