[Keith Wansbrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > Stefan Karrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A sound base for a Time implementation should use TAI (temps atomique > > international), c.f. <http://cr.yp.to/libtai.html>. > > I disagree; I think UTC is quite sufficient, and will match the users' > expectations much better. (executive summary: UTC is the time on your > watch (+/- timezone of course), TAI is behind by a few seconds, and > this difference changes each time there's a new leap second). > > However, the reference above is not to TAI, but to a library called > libtai. I don't know anything about this; Stefan, maybe you could > tell us some more? >
I know it's not really on topic, but for those of us who are ignorant of the details of time standards, does anyone have a pointer to a decent conceptual (i.e., non-software specific) overview of the subject? Leap seconds, etc., are all pretty much new to me, but I am curious. Matt -- Matt Hellige [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://matt.immute.net _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
