Re: TAI time
[email protected] (Russ Allbery) 18 Aug 2000 14:47:10 -0700
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.language.datetime |
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| Organization | The Eyrie |
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Mark-Jason Dominus <[email protected]> writes: > TAI is an international time standard. It has a number of technical > advantages over UTC. One of these advantages is that it doesn't have > any silly truck with leap seconds. One point to be aware of with TAI, however, is that Unix system clocks don't normally keep TAI so you can end up with a 20-second differential or so due to the difference in leap seconds. Dan's libraries use an external table to track leap seconds and adjust. This won't matter for most applications (the TAI64 formats are independent of whether you're keeping true TAI or the bastardized Unix UTC-like TAI), but it's something to be aware of. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>