Time (was: Re: User Petition on Standards to Netscape and Microsoft)

[Garrett Wollman <wollman at khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Tue, 06 Jan 1998 10:17:44 -0500, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie at UU.NET> said:

> Of course, you've now made the conversion between this time scale and 
> a particular instance of wall-clock time much more complicated than adding 
> a fixed offset.  Grief is conserved.

Except, of course, that Arthur Olson has already solved that problem
for us (and, for recent-historical times, this was already the case).

There was some flamage on comp.protocols.time.ntp not too long ago
saying that NTP should have been designed to tick TAI, and leave it up
to the end users to figure out whether they want to observe TAI, TAI
plus a fixed offset, or UTC.  (Of course, the POSIX botch strikes
again.)

-GAWollman

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