Re: [MirageOS-devel] Timestamp representation and CLOCK

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:57 +0100 on 13 Jul (1436792231), Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Le lundi, 13 juillet 2015 à 11:28, Tim Deegan a écrit :
> > UTC leap seconds make this confusing. I.e. 'd' is not exactly the
> > number of (UTC) days since the epoch, but it will _inevitably_ be used
> > for that, leading to glitches around midnight.
> 
> In fact it is meant to. But the documentation string I wrote was not precise 
> enough, thanks for pointing this out.  
> 
> It should read (being constrained here by the fact that POSIX time seems to 
> be the only source of time we can get):  
> 
>   "occuring at [d] * 86'400e12 + [ps] *POSIX* picoseconds"  

Ah, OK.  Sorry for the noise.

Cheers,

Tim.

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