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They are not required when using TAI. The only sensible way to count time is with TAI. UTC and its leap seconds should only be used for display/parsing, not for
by himinlomax 5y ago
They are not required when using TAI. The only sensible way to count time is with TAI. UTC and its leap seconds should only be used for display/parsing, not for counting time. That people do otherwise is rage inducing.
- nextaccountic 5y agoYEP! no timestamp should EVER be in UTC.
- user-the-name 5y agoA time expressed in TAI that is in the future has no conversion to human-readable time. That is not a very useful piece of data for many, many use cases.
- d110af5ccf 5y ago> TAI that is in the future has no conversion to human-readable time Doesn't it convert to within some margin for error? Checking Wikipedia, I see that the delta between TAI and Unix time has only drifted 27 seconds since 1972. That should be more than sufficient for your average mundane human readable purpose.