Anybody involved with ISO C standardization ?

[Chuck Swiger]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> I just read another brain-dead proposal for a new timeformat
> which appearantly is in the ISO C queue and I would really 
> like if we can avoid having another damn mistake in that area.
> (http://david.tribble.com/text/c0xlongtime.html)

I tried to figure out what was wrong with the proposal, and came up with this:

"The longtime_t type represents a system time as an integral number of ticks 
elaped since the beginning of the long time epoch. Each tick is two 
nanoseconds in length. The epoch begins at {AD 2001-01-01 00:00:00.000 Z}.

Long time values represent dates across the range of {AD 1601-01-01 00:00:00 
Z} to {AD 2401-01-01 00:00:00 Z} within the proleptic Gregorian calendar."

[ Ugh.  :-) ]

-- 
-Chuck