Re: Time Libraries Rough Draft

12 Feb 2005


      On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:46:44PM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:
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On 2005-02-12, John Meacham  wrote:
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getLeapSecondTable = do
        handle (\_ -> return builtInTable) $  readFile "/etc/leapseconds"
                >>= return . readLeapSecondTable
libtai uses (${PREFIX})/etc/leapseconds.dat
the Time Service of the US Naval Observatory provides one at
ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat
It would be nice if we could use one of those formats rather than
creating yet another one.
Yeah, definitly. Then for perfect UTC and TAI, all that is needed is a
one-line cron job to snarf that file (at least once every 6 months) and
a NTP synchronized time_t. 
        John

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