Given two (possibly unordered) binary timestamps, returns a
    single UTC time interval whose inaccuracy spans the two input
    binary timestamps.

    Format

      #include <utc.h>

      int utc_spantime(*result, *utc1, *utc2)

         utc_t *result;
         const utc_t *utc1;
         const utc_t *utc2;

1  –  Parameters

    Input

 utc1

    Binary timestamp.

 utc2

    Binary timestamp.

    Output

 result

    Spanning timestamp.

2  –  Description

    Given two binary timestamps, the Span Time routine returns a
    single UTC time interval whose inaccuracy spans the two input
    timestamps (that is, the interval resulting from the earliest
    possible time of either timestamp to the latest possible time of
    either timestamp).

3  –  Notes

    The tdf in the output UTC value is copied from the utc2 input.
    If either input binary timestamp has an infinite inaccuracy, an
    error is returned.

4  –  Returns

     0   Indicates that the routine executed successfully.
    -1   Indicates an invalid time argument.

5  –  Example

    The following example computes the earliest and latest times for
    an array of 10 timestamps.

    utc_t               time_array[10], testtime, earliest, latest;
    int                 i;

    /*
     *   Set the running timestamp to the first entry...
     */

    testtime = time_array[0];

    for (i=1; i<10; i++) {

       /*
        *   Compute the minimum and the maximum against the next
        *   element...
        */

    utc_spantime(&testtime,       /* Out: Resultant interval        */
                 &testtime,       /* In:  Largest previous interval */
                 &time_array[i]); /* In:  Element under test        */
    }

    /*
     *   Compute the earliest possible time...
     */

    utc_pointtime(&earliest,    /* Out: Earliest poss time in array */
                 (utc_t *)0,    /* Out: Midpoint                    */
                 &latest,       /* Out: Latest poss time in array   */
                 &testtime);    /* In:  Spanning interval           */

6  –  Related Functions

    utc_boundtime, utc_gettime, utc_pointtime