meltingwax

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   by meltingwax 10y ago

   Thanks for clarifying my statement!
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   by meltingwax 10y ago

   Here's an example: I have packets read from an instrument which are timestamped in seconds since 1980-01-06 (GPS Epoch). To compute each packet's proper datetime representation in TAI, I need add those seconds to 1980-01-06, and s
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   by meltingwax 10y ago

   When the mapping between a time_t and a "human readable format" (hours, minutes, seconds, etc) takes into account extra leap seconds. You could use time_t underneath, if that's what you really wanted to do. As my co-worker on
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   by meltingwax 10y ago

   This is designed for programmers of user facing applications. For science and engineering, it does not address the problems, eg lack of leap seconds.
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   by meltingwax 12y ago

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