[H-GEN] proposed modernized time API for ISO C

[Martin Pool]

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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/

Includes:

  * leap seconds
  * nanoseconds
  * 2**64 second range (i.e. >> life of the solar system)

The documentation also mentions the entertaining design decision of
"[d]elaying return from the clock-query system call until the leap
second is over"

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