12-28-2005
No record of leap seconds is kept. So each time a leap second occurs, calculation of past timestamps becomes wrong by one more second. In the unix view of time, there are no leap seconds. Instead of a leap second, an occasional second is twice as long as other seconds. But this means that you can precalculate, for example, the number of seconds in a year. A system that adheres strictly to the leap second paradigm cannot do that since leap seconds cannot be predicted by more than 6 months. Posix discussed leap seconds at length and decided on this approach. The deciding factor was the need to precalculate future timestamps. Another consideration was that non-networked unix systems may not have access to a leap second knowledgable clock.
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Please advise.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
tcl_gettime
Tcl_GetTime(3) Tcl Library Procedures Tcl_GetTime(3)
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NAME
Tcl_GetTime - get date and time
SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h>
Tcl_GetTime( timePtr )
ARGUMENTS
Tcl_Time * timePtr (out) Points to memory in which to store the date and time information.
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DESCRIPTION
The Tcl_GetTime function retrieves the current time as a Tcl_Time structure in memory the caller provides. This structure has the follow-
ing definition:
typedef struct Tcl_Time {
long sec;
long usec;
} Tcl_Time;
On return, the sec member of the structure is filled in with the number of seconds that have elapsed since the epoch: the epoch is the
point in time of 00:00 UTC, 1 January 1970. This number does not count leap seconds - an interval of one day advances it by 86400 seconds
regardless of whether a leap second has been inserted.
The usec member of the structure is filled in with the number of microseconds that have elapsed since the start of the second designated by
sec. The Tcl library makes every effort to keep this number as precise as possible, subject to the limitations of the computer system. On
multiprocessor variants of Windows, this number may be limited to the 10- or 20-ms granularity of the system clock. (On single-processor
Windows systems, the usec field is derived from a performance counter and is highly precise.)
SEE ALSO
clock
KEYWORDS
date, time
Tcl 8.4 Tcl_GetTime(3)