[time-nuts] FW: Bulletin C number 30

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Tue Jul 5 12:33:11 EDT 2005


At 11:44 AM 7/5/2005, M. Warner Losh wrote...
>In message: <6.2.3.4.0.20050705100343.0412ac70 at mjs.alientech.net>
>: No, you didn't. What you and Warner HAVE demonstrated is that you
>: _chose_ the wrong time coordinate system for your
>: systems/applications.
>
>How do you know this?  I've demonstrated no such thing.  We *DO* use TAI for our internal time
>keeping.  The trouble with that is two fold.  One: GPS receivers tend[*]
>to give you time in UTC and you need to convert the one to the other.
>Second: Users want to see the UTC time on their atomic clocks, time
>code counters, etc.   So you're stuck displaying UTC.

If it's not one system, it's another. As I said, you (the collective you - your organization) _chose_ to use UTC. The need to maintain both UTC and TAI, and deal with leap seconds, is purely an issue internal to your organization. Perhaps your users have a real need for time closely correlated to UT/GMST, in which case stopping UTC leaps seconds would do them a disservice. You're trying to make UTC into something it isn't. 




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