In message: <20091013162901.gd26...@ucolick.org> Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> writes: : On Tue 2009-10-13T12:21:27 -0400, ashtongj hath writ: : > Is BST British Summer Time? If so, is there some new statute in the : > UK adopting time offset from UTC rather than offset from the ill-defined : > GMT? (Of course the offset is 0 in the winter.) : : BeiDou System Time, the time scale used by the Compass navigation : satellite system being flown by Peoples Republic of China. : : BST was equal to UTC on 2006-01-01 and has no leap seconds.
Are all the other time scales supposed to be nominally TAI + offset + error-in-execution-that-is-tiny, or are there some other subtle definitions that makes them evolve in a way that's different than TAI? Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs