[LEAPSECS] Java: ThreeTen/JSR-310

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Sat Jan 29 03:43:10 EST 2011



> If this happens, I therefore think that there may end up being two

> versions of "UTC" in common use, which would be a far worse situation

> than today.

>

> Stephen


Your java class going to provide the true TAI, the true UTC,
and the a user-friendly (smoothed, non leap second) version
of UTC, right? If so, what name do you plan to use for that
latter time scale? Some OS's use words like "system time"
or "gmtime".

/tvb



More information about the LEAPSECS mailing list