[LEAPSECS] [time-nuts] Leap Quirks

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <61D527C3-DE55-42A8-98A4-0C69BC3C3E93 at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:

>Magnus Danielson wrote:



>In NOAO's widely  

>distributed image processing system (IRAF) a sexagesimal number is a  

>double precision floating point number, not an integer:


Yeah, the "struct timeval/timespec" mess of ISO-C/POSIX is seriously
barfable from a performance point of view.

The proper thing for the future is either a "int128_t" 64.64
fixedpoint time representation or a double ditto.

Fixed point holds some advantages on tiney embedded systems.

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