In article <420354F4.6030201@imperial.ac.uk>,
Keean Schupke
Why doesnt the library connect to one of the TAI clocks, and read the leap second table.
This means having to make network connections just to tell the time. Is this a good idea?
If the system clock is UTC the system must be running NTP and be connected to a network. If it is not running NTP the system time is more or less TAI anyway (no leap seconds occur without a networked time reference and NTP)
I think even people who don't use NTP set their clock to UTC at the time they set it. You can call that TAI with a fixed offset if you want (and an offset we can't discover), but the difference is probably less significant than the clock drift, and in the long term they'll likely eventually set it to UTC again. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA