Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: Some tricky, but useful functions ... for discussion

[Bardur A. <oca...@sc...>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:25:37PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:

> Trouble is ...
> 
> "Seconds" aren't really constant in length (depending on which sort of

Well, seconds as measured by atomic clocks should be
pretty constant (when the observer and clock are in the
same frame of reference), which is the basis for a
slightly more stable time measurement than UTC:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

so it might not be entirely hopeless. Any measurement
which provides a continuous and monotonously increasing
"value of time" should do. But we're getting waaay
off-topic here, so I'll just leave it at that. :) 
   
> I suspect that we need to wait until someone who really knows about
> this sort of thing decides to "scratch an itch" and writes the
> definitive specialist library.
> 

Agreed.

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