IPP Mail Archive: RE: IPP> MOD - Use of time [and Bake Off 2 Issue 17]

RE: IPP> MOD - Use of time [and Bake Off 2 Issue 17]

Stefan Andersson (stefan.andersson@axis.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:37:53 +0100 (MET)

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Anthony Porter wrote:

> Perhaps the solution is to keep the time-at-xxx attributes, but have th=
em
> return the elapsed time in seconds between the time the event occurred,=
and
> the present time i.e. time-at-creation represents the age of the job in
> seconds. That way the values do not depend on the printer-up-time.
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> A printer without a clock can support that, provided it has a timer.
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> The client can use its own local time to calculate the absolute times, =
or if
> the printer has a clock and supports "printer-current-time", the client=
can
> also calculate the printer time.
> Anthony Porter
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I think this is a verry good idea.

/Stefan
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