24 Jun
2015
24 Jun
'15
9:05 a.m.
Philip Homburg <pch-nanog@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. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Trafalgar: Variable 3 or 4, but northwesterly 4 or 5 in southeast. Slight, occasionally moderate. Mainly fair. Mainly good.