Magnus Danielson wrote: >Thus, the TAI-UTC difference was 4.213170 + (40587-39126) x 0.002592s = >8.000082 s.
Yes. This lets you calculate the number of *TAI* seconds since the Unix epoch. There were 63072001.999918 TAI seconds (exactly) in UTC's version of 1970 and 1971 together. >So depending on which interpretation you choose... I see some 3-4 >different times occuring. The spread amongst them is about 26 s or so. I think it's clear that Unix time has the well-established naive mapping to some form of UT. You can pick UT1 or UTC, giving answers that differ by a fraction of a second. Anything that secularly counts other than 86400 per UT day isn't Unix time: this includes counting either UTC or TAI seconds. -zefram _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
