On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Jim Biard <[email protected]> wrote:
> The point I'm trying to make about gregorian_nls is that it lacks any > mechanism for specifying which time system is being used for the timestamp > in the reference date & time. > and that, indeed is the only thing we need the calendar specification for, yes? (after that, seconds are well defined). > or we state that the timestamp in the reference must be UTC. Declaring > the reference timestamp unambiguously as UTC doesn't force anyone to > extract absolute times from the time variable in UTC. It does require data > consumers to convert the UTC timestamp to GPS or TAI or whatever before > proceeding to extract absolute times from the time variable. > Isn't TAI also complete? Or am I all confused? -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected]
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