System.Time.Clock Design Issues

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Thu Feb 3 20:14:09 EST 2005


In article <slrnd04hr3.gm9.wnoise at ofb.net>,
 Aaron Denney <wnoise at ofb.net> wrote:

> > It's not clear what POSIX should have done.
> 
> Yes, it is.  Monotonic consistently scaled time is far more important
> than future conversions to UTC.

Well, we already have that with the clock() function, which returns 
something like CPU uptime or process time and is not affected by 
leap-seconds I believe.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA



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