27 Jan
2005
27 Jan
'05
12:22 p.m.
Simon Marlow wrote:
You can't assume that time_t is not being adjusted for leap seconds: the host might be running NTP, for example. The best thing to do seems to be to assume that time_t is a count of seconds since the epoch minus leap seconds, and calculate TAI from that. It might be wrong by up to a second around a leap second on a host running NTP, and slightly more wrong on a host not running NTP, but the latter probably don't care too much about second-accuracy anyway.
Why not directly use a system timer... When the library initialises we get the time, and then allocate a dedicated system timer, which we use to count time intervals... Keean.