On 1/18/2015 6:04 PM, William Unruh wrote:
UTC always has 86400 seconds per year.
You clearly don't understand how leap seconds work. You're embarrassing yourself now. When there's a leap second, there are 86401 SI seconds in that year, that's the whole point. You may also be interested to learn that a year with the similarly named leap day has 366 days, not the usual 365.
Note UTC differs from TAI by an interger number of seconds, AND that integer changes with the leap second. Ie, it cannot be continuous if TAI is continuous.
Nonsense. When there's a leap second, there's a UTC second numbered 23:59:60, ibid. Both UTC and TAI tick forward constantly, with each new second uniquely enumerated.
TAI is monotonic and continuous. UTC thus cannot be.
Now there's a non-sequitur. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
