Robert Elz said:
but upon further reflection, and after reading Guy's most recent message, I think that comment of mine was nonsense.
And further, the initial request is also pretty meaningless, TAI is not (unlike UTC) a timezone, so TZ=TAI makes precisely no sense at all.
Sorry, that's not so.
As best I understand it, TAI is just a count of seconds from its offset, and has no concept of years, months, or days, just seconds, and so attempting to use the localtime() set of functions on TAI data makes precisely no sense.
I'm afraid that's wrong. TAI *does* have a concept of years, months, days, hours, and minutes. It makes perfect sense to say TZ=TAI and you'll get a meaningful answer (which is currently 34 seconds ahead of TZ=UTC). -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646