The Open Group, which is drafting the next POSIX.1 standard, has formed a mailing list for issues relating to the standardization of new time_t primitives. The idea, I believe, is to invent a new time type, which would be an integer count of nanoseconds since an epoch (or something close to that). This would assume the availability of 64-bit integer types, as required by the 1999 C Standard and common in recent C implementations. It's not clear to me whether this new type would be in the next POSIX.1 standard, or the one after that. I'm forwarding the following announcement of this new mailing list with permission from Andrew Josey of the Open Group. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:28:38 GMT From: Andrew Josey <ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org> Message-Id: <1000218112838.ZM17952@skye.rdg.opengroup.org> Reply-To: ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org (Andrew Josey) To: pasc-sec@opengroup.org Subject: (pasc-sec 675) Creation of the time_t study group Cc: austin-group@opengroup.org All I have created a mailing list for the time_t study group. This is pasc-time-study@opengroup.org If you'd like to be added as a subscriber please let me know. best regards Andrew - ----- Andrew Josey The Open Group Director, Server Platforms Apex Plaza,Forbury Road, Email: a.josey@opengroup.org Reading,Berks.RG1 1AX,England Tel: +44 118 9508311 ext 2250 Fax: +44 118 9500110 GSM: +44 7974207557 ------- End of forwarded message -------