> The truly critical time functions will continue to use TAI, > or some variant as they currently do....
TAI time isn't a silver bullet. It is a timescale that one can recover, with some effort, but only if one can get the leapsecond meta-data from somewhere else, since time is overwhelming distributed in UTC (even from GPS receivers that could give you TAI, but usually choose not to). Using it does not eliminate the need to know leap second information in general, since you have to interface to the outside world in UTC at some point. I know this because I've written several control systems that do use TAI internally, and the issues with leap seconds are large, if you want to get them right. If you refuse to accept this, then you are denying reality. Warner _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
