[LEAPSECS] Terminology question

[Rob Seaman]

On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:12 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote:


> Maybe we just need to toss the word 'idealized' in there somehow.

> 

> time_t is an idealized representation of seconds since 1970.


"Idealized representation" is a tautology.

How about "approximate representation" or "simplified representation" or "oversimplified (some might say) representation"?

What's an antonym for "normative"?

Maybe "notional facsimile"?

Rob