New submission from Russell Owen <ro...@uw.edu>:
It is becoming common (at least in astronomy) to want to use TAI as a time standard because it is a uniform time with no leap seconds, and differs from UTC (standard computer clock time) by an integer number of seconds that occasionally changes. Linux offers a clock for TAI time: CLOCK_TAI. It would be very helpful to have this constant in the time module, e.g. for calling time.clock_gettime Caveat: linux CLOCK_TAI will return UTC time if the leap second table has not been set up. Both ntp and ptp can be configured to maintain this table. So this is a caveat worth mentioning in the docs. But I hope it is not sufficient reason to deny the request. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 364633 nosy: r3owen priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Please support CLOCK_TAI in the time module. type: enhancement versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40017> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
