In message: <[email protected]> Zefram <[email protected]> writes: : I believe some people do do the 24 s offset that you suggest, however. : I think it's through ignorance of the rubber-seconds era and its leaps. : These people are effectively using an epoch of 1972-01-01T00:00:00 UTC : = 63072000. There's no clean description of what they're counting since : 1970. If doing this then it seems more consistent for pre-1972 timestamps : to count back in TAI seconds, but in practice I think a vague-UT pre-1972 : timescale gets grafted onto the TAI-synched post-1972 timescale. Bit of : a mess.
It is a useful engineering approximation. Oh, wait, you said a bit of a mess already... Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
