-------- In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes: >On Wed 2019-01-16T08:31:19+0000 Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ: >> In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes: >> >That evokes a challenge for all time nuts that I can make based on >> >reading Bulletin Horaire. >> > >> >What is the epoch that was used for TAI? >> >> Isn't that the same one Loran-C used ? 1958-01-01 00:00:00 GMT ? > >Nope. > >The epoch of TAI, and LORAN, and GPS is 1961-01-01T20:00:00 UT2. >Or maybe 1961-01-00 UT2. > >That is when the atomic time scale was set to a specified value.
But the specific value they set was not zero in 1961-01-01T20:00:00 UT2, they set it so it would have been zero at 1958-01-01 00:00:00 GMT -- 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] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
