[181371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Mon Jun 22 09:23:19 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:23:11 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20150622124415.GA12276@nic.fr>
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On (2015-06-22 14:44 +0200), Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Or simply use TAI which is the obvious time reference for Internet
> devices. Using UTC in routers is madness. Routers and Internet servers
> should use TAI internally and use UTC only when communicating with
> humans (the inferior life form which crawls on the Earth surface and
> cares about things like whether the sun is high at noon, for outside
> picnics).
I couldn't agree more. But out of curiosity does anyone have scoop why TAI
exists? I believe GPSTIME predates it, which appears analogous to TAI.
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++ytti
