Re: time since the epoch

Stefan Karrmann <sk@mathematik.uni-ulm.de> writes:

A sound base for a Time implementation should use TAI (temps atomique international), c.f. <http://cr.yp.to/libtai.html>.

I disagree; I think UTC is quite sufficient, and will match the users' expectations much better. (executive summary: UTC is the time on your watch (+/- timezone of course), TAI is behind by a few seconds, and this difference changes each time there's a new leap second). However, the reference above is not to TAI, but to a library called libtai. I don't know anything about this; Stefan, maybe you could tell us some more? --KW 8-)