[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

[Rob Seaman]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> Michael Deckers writes:

> 

>> Comparing IEEE floating point values holds its surprises

>> because values may be incomparable, 

> 

> In which case they are not valid timestamps, and you get

> EINVAL if in a library or whatever you asked for in your

> own code.


Testing for equality of timestamps?  For floating point this requires some sort of epsilon test.  (Perhaps I missed this in the discussion.)

Rob