Re: clock_gettime_ns

[John Stultz]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think that most of the hangup was a lack of agreement on how the API
> should work wrt leap seconds.

I don't recall this objection. The interface uses existing clockids,
so it probably should keep the existing leap-second behavior of those
clockids.

> I've always thought that the Right Way to represent a UTC time is
> nanoseconds since some epoch, where every potential leap second
> counts.

Check out the CLOCK_TAI clockid merged in 3.10.

thanks
-john
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