Keean Schupke
I would think that Time should be fudge-factor free... simply a number of milliseconds after the epoch...
A timestamp may even be an opaque value, as long as you can get the difference (in seconds and fraction of) between two time stamps, and convert it to calendar data. (Perhaps it would also be nice to output a timestamp directly in some format?) So it may not need to be specified. Or is it necessary to be able to store and retrieve (the internal representation of) timestamps? It then doesn't *really* matter whether the internal format uses TAI or UTC, but time differences in UTC must be compensated for leap seconds (so that computations don't go faster or slower because of them). -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants