[LEAPSECS] [time-nuts] Leap Quirks

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <alpine.LSU.2.00.0901051603040.10002 at hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Tony F
inch writes:

>On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>>

>> The proper thing for the future is either a "int128_t" 64.64

>> fixedpoint time representation or a double ditto.

>

>Do you mean double as in the C type? Which is surely too small - you want

>quad-precision FP or perhaps "double double" (paired doubles to get 112

>bits of mantissa).


True, it would probably have to be a "long double" of at least 80 bits.

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