10 Feb
2005
10 Feb
'05
7:11 a.m.
Seth Kurtzberg
I still think a calendar only makes sense mapping TAI time to other structures, including UTC time. There really are good reasons that other systems have implemented it this way.
Which other systems? All systems I know (POSIX, Java, .NET, Common Lisp) use UTC as a base and don't provide TAI at all.
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. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/