In message <4ff166e7.1060...@alum.dartmouth.org>, David McGaw writes:
>There is already a time scale that is extensively used that has no leap >seconds - GPS. Software could use that rather than UTC for its root time. For all purposes GPS = TAI + constant, and it would be a lot easier to get the rest of the world to accept rule/standards-making based on TAI than GPS for political reasons. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | 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 To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
