At 11:44 AM 7/5/2005, M. Warner Losh wrote... >In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >: No, you didn't. What you and Warner HAVE demonstrated is that you >: _chose_ the wrong time coordinate system for your >: systems/applications. > >How do you know this? I've demonstrated no such thing. We *DO* use TAI for >our internal time >keeping. The trouble with that is two fold. One: GPS receivers tend[*] >to give you time in UTC and you need to convert the one to the other. >Second: Users want to see the UTC time on their atomic clocks, time >code counters, etc. So you're stuck displaying UTC.
If it's not one system, it's another. As I said, you (the collective you - your organization) _chose_ to use UTC. The need to maintain both UTC and TAI, and deal with leap seconds, is purely an issue internal to your organization. Perhaps your users have a real need for time closely correlated to UT/GMST, in which case stopping UTC leaps seconds would do them a disservice. You're trying to make UTC into something it isn't. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
