Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> If we're going to standardize on a single time format for all
> platforms, I wish we could choose a good format. Unix time runs out
> in 2038.
Not true. On 64 bit Unix platforms time_t is 64 bit.
Alan Burlison
Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If we are going to use this, I'd like to see us standardize on the
> highest-precision (i.e. attosecond) version. While it's not necessary
> in any application that I can currently think of and will probably never
> be necessary in 90% of Perl applicatio
If we are going to use this, I'd like to see us standardize on the
highest-precision (i.e. attosecond) version. While it's not necessary in
any application that I can currently think of and will probably never be
necessary in 90% of Perl applications, when you need it, you need it, and
if the cor
I agree with Tim that it's a red herring that unix systems don't
normally have access to a TAI source.
The proposal under discussion is to use one time format for all
platforms. So maybe there's a minor difficulty in converting unix
time to TAI time; probably it's
Tim Jenness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think this is a bit of a red herring. Presuambly the time on your
> computer depends on where you are synching from (if at all) - if you are
> synching to a TAI time server then you are fine. In the worst case you
> are synching
ed herring. Presuambly the time on your
computer depends on where you are synching from (if at all) - if you
are synching to a TAI time server then you are fine. In the worst case you
are synching to the sys admins watch so the minor actual difference
between UTC and TAI may be irrelevant in most
Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> TAI is an international time standard. It has a number of technical
> advantages over UTC. One of these advantages is that it doesn't have
> any silly truck with leap seconds.
One point to be aware of with TAI, however, is that Unix system clock
Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>
> TAI is an international time standard. It has a number of technical
> advantages over UTC. One of these advantages is that it doesn't have
> any silly truck with leap seconds.
...
Why, this sounds perfect, Mr. D! When will you write the RFC?
David
TAI is an international time standard. It has a number of technical
advantages over UTC. One of these advantages is that it doesn't have
any silly truck with leap seconds.
Dan Bernstein has defined a time format called TAI64 which is based on
TAI. The format is very simple. TAI64 is almost c
