On Feb 24, 6:05 am, markjr...@gmail.com ("Mark J. Reed") wrote:
> Fair enough: official TAI is only known exactly after the fact.
Does "official TAI" means what BIPM says it means, and just plain
"TAI" means whatever perl6 wants it to mean?
TAI is an achievement for technical merits, but even m
On Feb 22, 2:23 pm, markjr...@gmail.com ("Mark J. Reed") wrote:
> I submit that if the inputs and outputs of Temporal are UTC, then Perl
> is using UTC, not TAI. Is it TAI internally?
Only the time scale which is approved by the ITU-R for use in radio
broadcasts has any international backing. Be
On Feb 19, 10:30 pm, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote:
> 2000 would have been a lovely epoch if only the astronomers had kept
> their grubby hands off of civil time.
The astronomers might love to have the power to control something like
that, but I'm afraid that none who are alive now can take cr
