On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 03:46:15PM +0200, Jochen Bern wrote: > While I may have started from the same setting, I *did* try to put > myself into the shoes of astronomers and people operating satellite > systems (which, ironically, includes the popular stratum 0 of GPS).
Do these people work just with UTC? I'd think it's not accurate enough for their purposes and they need to include the current UTC-UT1 offset anyway. > Personally, I'd say that if a computer's clock's best suited to run on > TAI (or equivalent) and all data needs to be converted from it to $TZ > for the users, anyway, then having it run on TAI and disseminating and > handling a TAI-UTC delta along with the sync and timezone deltas seems > like the proper approach. But that wish doesn't change gettimeofday() > implementations all over the globe with a snap of my fingers, does it. Agreed, but wouldn't switching to TAI everywhere be much more difficult than stopping messing with UTC and keep it a fixed offset from TAI? -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
