Re: [LEAPSECS] Running on TAI

2019-01-18 Thread Martin Burnicki
Steve Allen wrote: > On Thu 2019-01-17T18:12:25+0100 Martin Burnicki hath writ: >> Hm, maybe that was originally the case. I wonder whether the folks who >> wrote the text just had UTC in mind when they "invented" time_t. > > The best insight into the POSIX committee was posted on LEAPSECS in > 20

Re: [LEAPSECS] Running on TAI

2019-01-18 Thread Steve Summit
Martin Burnicki wrote: > It's even the same if you look at different struct timespecs taken on > the same system, but with different clock IDs. From the data type alone > you don't know how to interpret this correctly. We've got waaay too many time structures already, but if anyone's in a position

Re: [LEAPSECS] Running on TAI

2019-01-18 Thread Robert Jones
Tempus fudgit anyone? On 18/01/2019 01:40, Daniel R. Tobias wrote: On 17 Jan 2019 at 15:57, Brooks Harris wrote: In private discussion with one member of that committee on that topic it was said "... but the time people would just not stop arguing!". Funny how everybody knows what time is but

Re: [LEAPSECS] Running on TAI

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 1:35 AM Martin Burnicki wrote: > Steve Allen wrote: > > On Thu 2019-01-17T18:12:25+0100 Martin Burnicki hath writ: > >> Hm, maybe that was originally the case. I wonder whether the folks who > >> wrote the text just had UTC in mind when they "invented" time_t. > > > > The

Re: [LEAPSECS] leapseconds, converting between GPS time (week, second) and UTC

2019-01-18 Thread Michael Deckers via LEAPSECS
On 2019-01-18 17:11, Michael H Deckers wrote:    .. insert a step of 0.2 s in their time signal about every 71 days.    when he meant "about every 77 days".    Michael Deckers. ___ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com https://pairlist