Hi there
John Hasler wrote:
Well, we have machines on and around Mars that need to keep time and that we need to synchronize with. In any case, the point is that planetary days and years are intervals to be measured, not clocks. I understand and share the desire to localize the representation of time, but that should be done explicitly. It made sense to synchronize our clocks with the Earth when we knew that it was a more stable oscillator than any we could build, but that is no longer true. Leap seconds don't correct an error: they jigger stable clocks so that they track a known drifty one. They should be treated as localization, not as error correction. Put them in tzdata.
Indeed. Regards, Rob -- Wim T. Schippers for president http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Universiteit_Twente_Verzonken_Torentje_van_Drienerlo.jpg _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
