Anybody involved with ISO C standardization ?

[Stefan Bethke]

Am 21.01.2005 um 19:18 schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp:

> In message <41F14659.8040003 at mac.com>, Chuck Swiger writes:
>> 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."
>
> Lets take just the two worst mistakes:

Maybe the author of these proposals hasn't had the opportunity to enjoy 
Calendrical Calculations by Reingold and Dershowitz. (Their homepage is 
at http://emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/index.shtml)


Stefan

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