Re: Is 'right' wrong?
Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:09:41 +0000 (UTC)
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Lloyd Zusman dixit: >Well, I didn't understand until late in the discussion that it's unusual >for people to want their human-readable time to be (currently) 22 >seconds off from "civil" time. I thought it was normal to do that among >those who are trying keep their system clocks in sync with TAI. You need to get your system clock to TAI _in order to be able to_ have your human-readable clock set to UTC correctly (and be able to subtract dates to get time ranges; e.g. if you were to calculate my age on a system whose kernel clock is not set to TAI you were off by 12 or so seconds already). bye, //mirabile