27 Jan
2005
27 Jan
'05
11:10 a.m.
Ketil Malde
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).
It's not possible to avoid irregularities around leap seconds on at least some systems, because many systems actually slow down their Unix second counter (NTP synchronized), and many systems don't (not NTP synchronized) - you can't determine programmatically which is the case. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/