[181433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Jun 24 09:05:38 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:05:34 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Philip Homburg <pch-nanog@u-1.phicoh.com>
In-Reply-To: <m1Z7jgr-0000FJC@stereo.hq.phicoh.net>
Cc: nanog2 <nanog@nanog.org>
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Philip Homburg <pch-nanog@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
>
> For UTC the analog approach would be to keep time in TAI internally and
> convert to UTC when required.
This is much less of a solution than you might hope, because most APIs,
protocols, and data formats require UT. (Usually not UTC but a
representation isomorphic to traditional UT which ignores leap seconds.)
Tony.
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