In message <[email protected]>, Rob Seaman writes:
>>> The current definition of UTC permits it to be used to recover an interval >>> timescale. >> >> Not if you are scheduling events in the future. > >Righto! Time-of-day and interval timekeeping are two distinct >things. No single system can convey both with 100% self-consistence. ...and all were asking is that one particular timecale, the one that runs our lives, originates on interval time, rather than earth rotation. Given that astronomers have 10+ timescales, it is an amazing lack of charity, that they can not spare one of them for the rest of the populations needs. Poul-Henning -- 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
