[LEAPSECS] Instant (86400 second Java class) [was Java: ThreeTen/JSR-310]

[Stephen Colebourne]

On 29 January 2011 08:43, Tom Van Baak <tvb at leapsecond.com> wrote:

>> 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.

>

> 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".


I call it the "UTC-SLS" time-scale. See new thread on Instant.

Stephen