Re: TAI and qmail

Jan Pisacka <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, to summarize: qmail computes time labels directly from a system time
> expressed as the number of seconds elapsed from an epoch, without taking
> care what epoch it is based on.

It's the same epoch either way, but the time_t value may be a count of
either all seconds (as clockspeed assumes) or only non-leap seconds
(as qmail assumes) since that epoch.

> Without patching, concurrent use of clockspeed and qmail is not a
> good idea. If I am making any logical error, please, correct me.

I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea; it's just something to be
aware of when interpreting Received fields.


paul