[LEAPSECS] leapseconds, converting between GPS time (week, second) and UTC

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jan 16 03:31:19 EST 2019


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In message <20190115205243.GB25854 at ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes:
>On Tue 2019-01-15T12:34:11-0800 Gary E. Miller hath writ:
>> Yes, and no.  time_t is just seconds since an epoch.  Which epoch
>> is not well defined.  The epoch may well be anything.  See "man difftime".
>
>That evokes a challenge for all time nuts that I can make based on
>reading Bulletin Horaire.
>
>What is the epoch that was used for TAI?

Isn't that the same one Loran-C used ?  1958-01-01 00:00:00 GMT ?


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