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[Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone
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Lapo Luchini |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone |
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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:04:54 +0200 |
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> TAI might be a better global time choice,
> since it doesn't do leap seconds, and hence is monotonic.
Duh! Isn't UTC monotonic as well, even if it sometimes "changes speed"?
AFAIR leap seconds mean a minute with either 59 or 61 seconds, nothing
never "jumps" ahead or behind… but I should probably refresh my UTC a bit.
OTOH TAI seems nice and good and has an "official" 64 bit
representation; DJB wrote a (now public-domain) library for it too:
http://cr.yp.to/libtai.html
--
Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Stephen Leake, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Thomas Moschny, 2008/10/23
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Nathaniel Smith, 2008/10/23
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Lapo Luchini, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Bruce Stephens, 2008/10/24
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/24
- [Monotone-devel] Re: date certs on net.venge.monotone,
Lapo Luchini <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Markus Wanner, 2008/10/23
Re: [Monotone-devel] date certs on net.venge.monotone, Daniel Carosone, 2008/10/20