In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes: >Hi Tom, > >> Help me out here. That ACM generated time-stamp in your posting; which is it >> by your definition: time-of-day or interval timekeeping? > >Universal time is time-of-day. The current definition of UTC >permits it to be used to recover an interval timescale.
I think your attempted distinction between UTCs role in these two tasks is both bogus and disingenious. The reason a switch was made from rubber-seconds to leap-seconds was to make time intervals deterministic relative to non-astronomical events and processes. To claim 40 years later that timeintervals are merely a unintentional sideeffect of the UTC definition, is a very tough row to hoe, and you're not even close to making it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
