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Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:05:34 +0100
Philip Homburg <pch-nanog () u-1 phicoh com> wrote:
For UTC the analog approach would be to keep time in TAI internally and convert to UTC when required.
This is much less of a solution than you might hope, because most APIs, protocols, and data formats require UT. (Usually not UTC but a representation isomorphic to traditional UT which ignores leap seconds.) Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot () dotat at> http://dotat.at/ Trafalgar: Variable 3 or 4, but northwesterly 4 or 5 in southeast. Slight, occasionally moderate. Mainly fair. Mainly good.
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