[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Jan 21 11:26:13 EST 2012


In message <E44719B7-9415-44B6-B370-BF5CF350394D at noao.edu>, Rob Seaman writes:


>Testing for equality of timestamps?


I would hope that using a FP format and mandate that for runtime
you never get two which are the same, should eliminate that hobby.

I don't know any valid usecase for testing timestamps for validity,
except for testing for programming errors.

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