[LEAPSECS] Do lawyers care (know) about leap seconds?

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Wed Oct 1 12:15:56 EDT 2014


Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden at yandex.com> wrote:
>
> I cannot imagine you wouldn't agree that having CLOCK_TAI (and
> CLOCK_LEAPDRIFT) make things easier.

For most purposes we need civil time, and a TAI clock doesn't solve the
problem that civil time is too difficult to get right.

Tony.
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