From: "Andrew Simmons" <andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fix to tm2sec().
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:49:55 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030120065137.JFNO13460.mta3-rme.xtra.co.nz@[210.54.70.164]> (raw)
>This reason I can't agree with. Fixing all the problems that might
>crop up is a lot of work, but if I want POSIX, I know where to get
>it. I don't really want POSIX, which is why I run Plan 9.
Actually, I was intending to refer to ANSI C, rather than POSIX - I believe
they are different, although overlapping, and I was once told that it's
POSIX that specifies a starting date and interval for time_t values, whereas
ANSI C leaves both undefined.
But even if the standards argument doesn't sway you, surely you could spare
a thought for those of us (oh well, all right, just me) who are so old and
senile and stupid that even 128 bit integers would not suffice to represent
our age, and are consequently unable to come to terms with a zero-based
number system?
next reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 6:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-20 6:49 Andrew Simmons [this message]
2003-01-20 7:21 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-20 13:55 ` David Presotto
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-19 20:43 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-19 21:33 ` Dan Cross
2003-01-19 21:48 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-01-18 23:03 Dan Cross
2003-01-18 23:07 ` David Presotto
2003-01-18 23:12 ` Dan Cross
2003-01-19 0:10 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-19 0:20 ` Dan Cross
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='20030120065137.JFNO13460.mta3-rme.xtra.co.nz@[210.54.70.164]' \
--to=andrew.simmons@monitorbm.co.nz \
--cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).