[time-nuts] seeking a time/clock software architecture
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Sep 23 17:13:07 UTC 2011
In message <4E7CBCA1.9010503 at earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes:
>What I'd like to do is take the next step beyond what you promulgated
>with a representation of time and the conversion between count and time
>with a linear equation.
>
>I'd like to propose a standard description of a higher order model of
>time and the transformation between raw clock and time (in some agreed
>upon time scale).
Ouch...
That's one tough nut to generalize...
Are you even sure it makes sense to generalize it ?
3. The only thing worse than generalizing from one example
is generalizing from no examples at all.
(From Gettys rules for X11)
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