Harlan Stenn wrote:
An alternative is that we get enough support to advance NTF's General
Timestamp API, and then we can run systems on either TAI or UTC and
these conversions will happen automatically.
Since timescale files in the GTSAPI are "versioned", one could still use
an obsolete leapsecond file, and while those UTC timestamps would be
"wrong" if a new leapsecond was added, these timestamps would be
correctable when a new version of the UTC timescale file was available.
Hm, that may not really help if the API returns a wrong UTC time stamp
which is then used to set the system time wrong.
The tzdist protocol could also be helpful here to provide the
information required to do the conversion correctly. An expiration date
could be used for versioning.
Martin
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