[Tinyos-devel] Re: [Tinyos Core WG] time sync interfaces

[Miklos Maroti]

> I like this interface proposal. Just like there is a LocalTime interface
> there would be a GlobalTime interface.

Except that PacketTimeSynch does NOT provide global time per se,
it just allows to convert local time of one mote to that of another one.
Time synchronization protocols are still needed, and the semantics
of those is not at all covered. This is just a primitive.

> I'm not so sure that we can provide an interface that enables all
> available sync protocols to be run on all platforms.

If you look at the avaiable protocols, then PacketTimeSynch and
PacketTimeStamp pretty much covers all cases and allows you
to build more stuff on top.

Miklos