Pondering 2038

Timeval is used for calendar time, so it makes total sense to use real calendar units. It's not an especially good for calendar values, but the intent is clear.

Using binary fractions makes little bit more sense for CLOCK_MONOTONIC - it's mostly used for relative periods anyway. But then we'll have those rare cases when we need to sync CLOCK_MONOTONIC with the real clock (i.e. 'how much I'm going to wait till the next 100ms period?') and we're back to square one.

For better or worse, we are used to milliseconds and not binary-based second fractions (mibiseconds?). So it makes sense to keep it that way.

Would have been nice to also have decimal hours...

> BTW, did you notice the patriot missile's OS reported the time in 100ms units. It's a nice power of 10 - just what you are asking for. It didn't solve the problem.
It's still the same problem, just from the other side.