Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:19:36 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, resend] relatime: Let relatime update atime at least once per day |
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On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 07:35:25PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Not all days are 24*60*60 seconds long. Daylight savings time as well as > leap seconds make this an inaccurate/incorrect constant for representing > "one day". > I don't think we really care, but perhaps the comment above should > acknowledge the fact that this is aproximately one day?
"Day" in the ISO 8601 sense, ie:
2.2.5 day unit of time, equal to 24 hours
as opposed to
2.2.6 calendar day time interval starting at midnight and ending at the next midnight, the latter being also the starting instant of the next calendar day
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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