In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >: 2005-07-18T12:34:56Z (UTC) >: 2005-07-18T12:35:28A (TAI - same instant) >: >: Multiple timescales will always exist. We should acknowledge that >: fact and move on. > >The reason that 'Z' is used for UTC is that A-X are used for all the >other time zones on the planet (well, all the ones that fall on hour >boundaries). I'm unsure if 'Y' is free or not for TAI.
I belive the A-X is only a military convention and I belive they have even given up on it and just resorted to Z time throughout. At least that was the case in the most recent joint NATO exercises and operations. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts