Taimu? TAI- -mu. Sorry. Couldn't resist the pun. (Bad Japanese pun, but nonetheless.)
-Jasmine 2005/8/15, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:33 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > > : I would assume that you would choose time 0.0 = Jan 1, 2000 at 00:00:00.0 > > : TAI (December 31, 1999 at 23:59:29.0 UTC), making the whole thing free of > > : any UTC interferences. But there is an argument for making the zero > > point a > > : recognizable boundary in civil time. > > That's my leaning--if I thought it might encourage the abandonment of > > civil leap seconds, I'd be glad to nail it to Jan 1, 2000, 00:00:00.0 UTC. > > If we're going with TAI, can't we just nail it to the epoch it defines, > instead? > > Sam. > > -- "Don't presume to lecture me about good and evil. I've been there, you've just seen a map." -Orson Scott Card -- http://www.spreadfirefox.com
