[time-nuts] Why not TAI? (was: The future of UTC)

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Wed Aug 10 05:41:52 UTC 2011


On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:57:45 +0000
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> Everybody but the time-lords have always been told to stay away from
> TAI in the strongest possible terms by said time-lords, who again and
> told the world to use UTC.

May i ask what the reason was to stay away from TAI?
I mean, it is obvious (for me) that for any application that needs
a steady, continious and monotone clock that TAI is one of the best
alternatives among all those time standards.

			Attila Kinali
-- 
Why does it take years to find the answers to
the questions one should have asked long ago?



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