On Oct 1, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Tony Finch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I cannot imagine you wouldn't agree that having CLOCK_TAI (and
>> CLOCK_LEAPDRIFT) make things easier.
> 
> For most purposes we need civil time, and a TAI clock doesn't solve the
> problem that civil time is too difficult to get right.

The “just use a different timescale” argument never will have much traction
until the primary timescale is implemented correctly, robustly and universally.
UTC isn’t today.

Warner

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