Comment by theamk

ska (and djb) libs have its own little world which, in some aspects, is weirder than systemd.

A most striking example is their time approach - they refuse to acknowledge 64-bit timeval and claim "those APIs will become obsolete in 2038" [0]; instead, they promote the TAI time, which is uses Unix epoch, except with bit 63 set and adjusted by leap seconds offset (whose value changes every few years or so, so old code needs to be patched or all timestamps would be a few seconds off). And this is not just internals; it's visible to users for example in log file names [1]

Now, I don't care if it's TAI or UTC, but I do think the working well with others is very important. And choosing a timestamp which is incompatible with basically every other piece of software out there is.. suboptimal.

[0] https://skarnet.org/software/skalibs/libstddjb/tai.html

[1] https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-log.html