Re: Is 'right' wrong?

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I know they are two different kinds.  But I _want_ my human-readable
>> string to be the same as my system clock.
>
> But that isn't meaningful.  The integer 1106464884 is not the same as
> the string "Sun Jan 23 02:21:02 2005", though they refer to the same
> time on my computer.  No integer is the same as any string.
>
>> I _want_ it to be 22 seconds (currently) later than the
>> human-readable values that most people see.
>
> Ah, so you want your clock to gradually go out of sync with the sun.
> Then remove /etc/leapsecs.dat for the sake of libtai's conversion
> functions, use a non-right time zone for the sake of localtime(), and
> feed your clockspeed with taiclock instead of sntplock, so your clock
> will count both leap and non-leap seconds even without
> /etc/leapsecs.dat.

Exactly!  And if I ever want the clock to go back in sync with the
sun again, then I can just put the right/ timezone descriptor back
in place.


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
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 God bless you.