On 2015-03-09 08:40 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
Brooks Harris <bro...@edlmax.com> wrote:
On 2015-03-07 03:01 PM, Steve Allen wrote:
I would say that the intent NTP and POSIX is to correspond to civil
time in contemporary use. Therefore, for dates before 1972-01-01
NTP and POSIX are counting seconds of UT.
This paragraph in your email had me scratching my head a little.
I think none of the "civil" timescales are counting in UT - they are
measured in SI Seconds, even when prolpetic to 1972.
Am I missing something here?
POSIX time is defined by a mapping from broken-down civil time labels to a
scalar value. Currently civil time is UTC; in the past it was some other
variant of UT.
Hi Tony,
So "UT" here is referring generally to the many variants of historical
"UT", including today's UTC. I see. Thanks.
-Brooks
Tony.
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