RE: Time Libraries Rough Draft

On 10 February 2005 12:12, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

Seth Kurtzberg writes:

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The simple fact that UTC time is not monotonically increasing causes a whole host of difficulties.

And the simple fact that obtaining TAI from systems in use requires periodic updates of the leap second table causes other difficulties.

This is a vitally important bit of rationale which has emerged from the current discussion. I certainly didn't fully appreciate the difficulties with basing the library on TAI before, and I imagine others won't too. I think it's important that we clearly state this rationale in the docs for the new library. Cheers, Simon