linux-kernel - Re: clock_gettime

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Message-ID: <20130911185008.GB8759@netboy>
Date:	Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:50:10 +0200
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kumar Sundararajan <kumar@...com>
Subject: Re: clock_gettime_ns

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:47:01AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> I think that coming up with something that's both non-POSIX and
> half-arsed is a bad idea, but doing something that's non-POSIX and
> well thought-through could be valuable.

I know Harlan Stenn of the Network Time Foundation is working on a new
timestamp API and presented a paper at the conference:

   Requirements for UTC and Civil Timekeeping on Earth
   A Colloquium Addressing a Continuous Time Standard
   University of Virginia, Charlottesville, May 29-31, 2013. 

   http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/

The slides are on that site, and I would bet that the paper could be
made available. In any case, since I think any kind of new time API idea
would benefit from review and acceptance from the NTP and BSD people.

Thanks,
Richard

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