[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

[Mark Calabretta]

On Tue 2012/01/24 08:22:41 -0000, "Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote
in a message to: Mark Calabretta <mcalabre at atnf.csiro.au>
and copied to: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs at leapsecond.com>


>>  int tmdiff(const struct tm *tm1, const struct tm *tm2, double *diff);

>>

>>  Return the time interval, *tm2 - *tm1, in SI seconds. 

>

>ENOCANDO


As a further example of the need to handle future dates, consider
that of producing Gantt charts and the like for project management.
These do require a time interval and not just the representation
and ordering of future events.

I don't think you have much hope of getting your realtime_t proposal
accepted by the wider unix community if ENOCANDO is the best it can
do for such. 


>Ohh, and btw: That function is a hell to write and it will never

>qualify as efficient...


It's no more complicated than tm_realtime(), and no slower than two
invokations of it.

Regards, Mark