[Keith Wansbrough <Keith.Wansbrough@cl.cam.ac.uk>]
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?
I know it's not really on topic, but for those of us who are ignorant of the details of time standards, does anyone have a pointer to a decent conceptual (i.e., non-software specific) overview of the subject? Leap seconds, etc., are all pretty much new to me, but I am curious. Matt -- Matt Hellige matt@immute.net http://matt.immute.net