Re: What TZ do you use to get right time w/ clockspeed?

Bennett Todd writes:
> Do you know of any other software using TAI?

There are a huge number of programs that compute real-time intervals
by subtracting time_t/timeval/timespec values. Those programs produce
incorrect results if you use the xntpd interpretation of timespec.

Even more fundamental is the user's expectation that the computer will
print the date, in the local time zone, correctly. This _cannot_ work
with the xntpd interpretation of timespec.

The fact that xntpd's brokenness bites users only once every year or two
is no excuse. The fact that most users don't care about small errors is
no excuse. It's not that difficult to do the job right.

---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago