Eugene van der Pijll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If Perl (or the underlying library functions) used TAI, it > should have printed something like > > $ perl -wle 'print scalar localtime $_ for 78796799 .. 78796801' > Sat Jul 1 01:00:09 1972 > Sat Jul 1 01:00:10 1972 > Sat Jul 1 01:00:11 1972 > > (because UTC=TAI-10s, TAI and MET differed 1 hour and 10 seconds > in 1972)
Ah. Good grief. You're absolutely right. I could have sworn the difference was 0 seconds between 1970-01-01 and until the leap second in June 1972. I should have checked ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat Peter -- #!/local/bin/perl5 -wp -*- mode: cperl; coding: iso-8859-1; -*- # matlab comment stripper (strips comments from Matlab m-files) s/^((?:(?:[])}\w.]'+|[^'%])+|'[^'\n]*(?:''[^'\n]*)*')*).*/$1/x;
