REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
Tony Finch
dot at dotat.at
Wed Jun 24 13:05:34 UTC 2015
Philip Homburg <pch-nanog at u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
>
> For UTC the analog approach would be to keep time in TAI internally and
> convert to UTC when required.
This is much less of a solution than you might hope, because most APIs,
protocols, and data formats require UT. (Usually not UTC but a
representation isomorphic to traditional UT which ignores leap seconds.)
Tony.
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