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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