Taylor R Campbell scripsit: > My understanding of the present proposals is:
Correct, with k = 10. The discrepancy represents the number of leap seconds that would have been needed between 1958, when TAI began, and 1972. In fact UTC only goes back to 1961, and during the period between then and 1972 there was a great deal of piecewise linear messiness, which it is wise to ignore. Note that TAI, and therefore UTC, is not available with high precision in real time: it is a reconstructed scale based on a weighted average of about 200 different clocks. -- All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part John Cowan that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part http://ccil.org/~cowan that cooks with olive oil, and the part that [email protected] cooks with butter. --David Chessler _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
