On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:07:31 -0600, Barry Merrill wrote: >FALSE: >Sanely organized networks, even those that do not span multiple time >zones, collect and store only UTC [GMT] STCKE values. > STCKE is notionally closer to TAI than to UTC in that TAI and STCKE are continuous timescales and UTC is discontinous. TAI and STCKE both embody the notion of (micro)seconds since an epoch; UTC is specified in terms of yyyy mm dd hh mm ss.fraction with minutes varying in length as leap seconds occur.
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