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Yeah djb's way suggest we use TAI time format, because it's more accurate. Anyway I haven't found this to be so big of a hassle for me. And it sounds really coo
by drinchev 12y ago
Yeah djb's way suggest we use TAI time format, because it's more accurate. Anyway I haven't found this to be so big of a hassle for me. And it sounds really cool what it's doing :
> The standard timestamp used in "the djb way" is TAI, for Temps Atomique Internationale. It is an absolute measure of elapsed time based on the decay of cesium atoms, where one day is equivalent to exactly 86,400 TAI seconds.
> But the actual rotation of the Earth does not exactly conform to the TAI idea of time. In fact the Earth is slowing down a little bit, so that each physical day is minutely more than 86,400 TAI seconds.
> Our human notion of time is based on this physical day length, and is represented by the UTC timeclock. The UTC timeclock is intended to represent a clock that points exactly 12:00 noon when the Sun is directly overhead on the solstice at 0 degrees longitude.
http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/leapsecs_update.html http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/leapsecs_update.html
- MichaelGG 12y agoYes, leap seconds are an abomination and something that should only exist for odd use cases, like astronomers or something. Forcing UTC into all software and civil use is vile. Hopefully UTC will stop getting leap seconds, or we'll move to something like UTC with no further leap seconds.
- edwintorok 12y agoYeah there should be a decision on that this year: http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/ http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/