In message: <[email protected]> James Cloos <[email protected]> writes: : >>>>> "Warner" == M Warner Losh <[email protected]> writes: : : Warner> So what you've done is created a new time scale that is a UTC : Warner> from 1972 forward, but a simplified form of UTC prior to 1972 : Warner> that didn't match what UTC was doing then. : : Grrr! Except s/you/they/; I didn't invent.
Yea, I was speaking a bit rhetorically :-) : So right isn't quite, err, right. I wonder whether the Olsen db can : be fixed to account for that? right/UTC and posix/UTC currently are : identical for all (time_t)LONG_MIN <= time_t < 78796800. Yes. I'd forgotten that the Olsen db doesn't deal with rubber seconds at all. It is a pain in the *** to try to do that, and of dubious value. I tried once to create a library that coped with them, but gave up when I realized it wasn't a useful problem to solve. : Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten that entirely. (And am : only just vaguely remembering that I used to know that fact. [SIGH]) It is certainly underdocumented... : Warner> Yet another hazard of high precision time keeping that few : Warner> people get right : : Part of what makes this list's name so appropriate is just how hard : it is, all things considered. That is also what makes it enjoyable. Yes. Very enjoyable. Of course, I could live without all this complexity, frankly, and be happier. : Warner> An understandable simplification, to be true, and one that's : Warner> often made... : : Often, I'm sure, because not all sources document/remember that fact. Yea. In another life, I defined a datum as 'number of SI seconds since 01-01-1972 00:00:00 UTC + 63072000'. Which is what we're talking about here, no? This is number of seconds since 1970, with the 'oddball' rubber seconds counting as SI seconds. Warner _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
