Re: GPS Leap Second Scheduled!

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:07:29 +0200

> > Of course, the most obvious mistake is using UTC to measure the time
> > between events, and that'll just keep on being made.
>
> Of course, which is why it is important that one can get either UTC
> or TAI from whatever format applies.

I'm not sure whether there are more programs which break down time() values
manually (as said by POSIX) or programs which use time() for measuring time
between events. Breaking the latter case seems to be more problematic in my
eyes...

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"New PC concept: "plug and pray""


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