[time-nuts] seeking a time/clock software architecture

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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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