Richard Gibson <richard.j.gib...@oracle.com> wrote: > > I am currently going through a similar exercise in another context, and the > best current text there explicitly characterizes the non-obvious day-based > accounting of POSIX time.
In general I think it's best to just refer to POSIX on this matter, and not try to restate the definition. POSIX is very clear and explicit about the day-based accounting of seconds. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2016edition/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_16 > However, there may be C-DNS purposes that cannot tolerate such > discontinuities, and they would presumably want to use a continuous monotonic > timescale with a fixed offset from TAI (as is the case for e.g. GPS time). That's practically unobtanium on most systems :-) Even if you have PTP there isn't a fixed PTP epoch, though the SMPTE profile defines it to be equivalent to POSIX time plus the TAI-UTC value from the IERS / NIST leapsecond tables. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ disperse power, foster diversity, and nurture creativity _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
