[LEAPSECS] Coding this week, and a trick for timeouts over leap seconds.

[Tom Van Baak]

> I am busy implementing some heartbeat monitoring code between two

> machines. The spec calls for a 1 second recovery.


Paul,

Try using clock() instead of gettimeofday_in_millisecs(). The former
nicely increments with CLOCKS_PER_SEC resolution and is immune
from UTC, timezones, and leap seconds. At least it does on windows.
Can someone comment on unix/linux?

/tvb