On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 17:17 +0100, Tony Finch via tz wrote:
In general I'm not enthusiastic about the idea of using "TAI" in computer systems to avoid the complications of UTC, mainly because most computers don't have access to anything like TAI, so you end up with a fudge that still has the problems of UTC but papered over with a leaky abstraction that tries and fails to hide the truth.
Tony.
I have always assumed that the problem of having access to TAI was solvable, using the same mechanisms that let computers know about time zones. From the application's point of view, TAI would just be another zone, with the mechanism for converting between TAI and UTC in a library. Am I overlooking something? Could you say more about your lack of enthusiasm for using TAI to avoid the complications of UTC? John Sauter (John_Sauter@systemeyescomputerstore.com) -- get my PGP public key with gpg --locate-external-keys John_Sauter@systemeyescomputerstore.com