Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

Leo Kislov Leo.Kislov at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 04:17:51 EDT 2007


On Jun 27, 10:51 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> The difficulty/impossibility of computing intervals on UTC because of
> leap seconds suggests TAI is a superior timestamp format.

If you care about intervals you'd better keep timestamps in SI seconds
since some zero time point (just like OP wanted). TAI timestamps are
pretty useless IMHO. They need to be converted to decimal/float for
interval calculations and they don't represent any legal time.

  -- Leo




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