big-picture comments on your proposed extensions to ISO C <time.h>

D. J. Bernstein djb at cr.yp.to
Sat Oct 3 02:23:27 UTC 1998


Markus Kuhn writes:
> Before any arithmetic, you first
> check whether there is a leap second in one of the arguments and abort
> if there is (because arithmetic is ill-defined in this case).

Of course, libtai doesn't have that problem.

libtai provides support routines for addition, subtraction, comparison,
halving, conversions to and from the external TAI64NA format, and
floating-point approximations. Applications don't need to worry about
the internal details.

> xtime_get can fail

In libtai, tai_now() and taia_now() always succeed.

---Dan
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