Re: A lurker surfaces

2006-12-30 Thread Rob Seaman
Jim Palfreyman wrote: With my time hat on, having time that is discontinuous pains me. It doesn't make sense in my heart. But at least these discontinuities are in whole seconds. Any discontinuities must be regularly done. So they are part of all computer systems and are tested and used all

Re: A lurker surfaces

2006-12-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Just a reminder that UTC has no - none - nada - discontinuities. At the very least, the TAI-UTC difference is discontinuous with jumps at the leap seconds. One could easily suggest that 'UTC has discontinuities'