Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >The Epoch is not important, and for reasons of debugging programmer >mistakes, preferably clearly visibly different from other magic numbers.
I think he was suggesting that you use the 1958-01-01 epoch that NASA (and I, in my desktop clock program) already use. That would make TAI times clearly distinct from Unix times, while providing a slight convenience among people who already count TAI seconds linearly. Your proposed epoch achieves the former but not the latter. There's *also*, if you're going to use floating point, a slight advantage in the epoch being relatively far in the past, so that you don't go through a great many changes of exponent in the near future. -zefram _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
