[LEAPSECS] Some definitions --> practically stated

Michael Deckers michael.deckers at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 9 14:40:23 EST 2011



On 2011-03-09 15:36, Warner Losh asked:


> Out of curiosity, does anybody know of a system that chose to implement

> time_t as a float/double?


The MacOS X system call CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent() returns
an IEEE 64 bit float. Also, PostgreSQL can (still ?) use
doubles for TIMESTAMP values as an option.

Michael Deckers.


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