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> use TAI64N timestamps instead TAI rather than UTC is an uncommon choice. I can see some argument for it. But in practice, it is made difficult by the fact th
by skissane 4y ago
> use TAI64N timestamps instead
TAI rather than UTC is an uncommon choice. I can see some argument for it. But in practice, it is made difficult by the fact that many popular operating systems and language runtimes don’t have any built-in APIs for UTC-TAI inter-conversion, or leap-second table access.
- lifthrasiir 4y agoI think that they operate on the assumption that the system zoneinfo is "right" and contains leap second information by itself (and "right" is not a pun, tzdata does provide Right/* zones that exactly do this!). And I agree to you; this is a very fragile assumption even when you have a total control over the system.