Oct. 10, 1998
2:53 p.m.
In fact all this bludgeoning of each other with UTC timestamps and TAI timestamps is quite irrelevant to any matter where legal future times are wanted. Future times that are of legal significance *must* be maintained in fully broken-down format, because they are invariably specified according to the local time of a specified place. There is no telling how many seconds will elapse between Now and Then, because the timezone rules may change between Now and Then, by as much as 24 hours! -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.