List of issues
Arthur David Olson
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Wed Mar 18 15:43:26 UTC 1987
> > Should time() return an implementation defined time
> > representation or should it return elapsed seconds
> > since midnight January 1 1970 GMT?
> The current POSIX draft already states that it returns the latter; do
> we want to change this?
No. . .I want to make sure it stays that way.
> X3J11 also has "time" and "time_t", although since they're not
> defining an OS standard they do not require "time_t" to be an
> integral type representing seconds since the epoch.
Ideally, I'd like to see both X3J11 and POSIX define time_t as elapsed seconds
since midnight January 1 1970 GMT, and see them both define the time function
as returning such a value. If this isn't possible, I'd like to see X3J11
define *differently-named* types and functions--tempus_t and tempus, or
whatever.
My fear is that there are programs out there that "know" what a time_t is
that "know" what the "time" function returns, and that will break if things
are changed.
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