Oct. 11, 1998
11:35 a.m.
Bradley White wrote on 1998-10-10 18:53 UTC: [very good discussion deleted, a agree with all you said]
People seem to dislike struct xtime because of the ability to represent bogus leap seconds.
Just for the record: ISO 8601 style display UTC as well as struct tm also has the ability to represent bogus leap seconds such as 01:02:60.123. Therefore I have serious problems understanding why exactly some people here feel uncomfortable about struct xtime because of this. (For the same reason, I also do not understand Paul's discomfort with the possibility of out-of-range nsec values.) Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>