[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Jan 21 13:58:25 EST 2012


In message <4F1B06D9.7060807 at yahoo.com>, Michael Deckers writes:


> Example questions: does difftime() set the inexact flag?


Why on earth would you even want to specify a difftime ?

People have two FP's then can subtract them, case closed.

difftime() is only necessary when you have bogo-types like
timeval, and avoiding such messes is exactly why I want the
FP in the first place.

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