Re: Synchronising an app with the system clock

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:30 +0000, Alex Jones wrote:
> Back on the thought of a "system clock" D-Bus service, how does this
> sound? (Sorry to reiterate some info.)
[...]
> Any further ideas/comments?

Waking 2 processes and doing RPC *each second* just to be sure to be on
time looks like really heavyweight.
Jumps in time aren't that frequent (mostly resume, perhaps first network
connection). Maybe dbus should just send a "time has changed" message
for interested applications, and the rest should just use sleep().

	Xav