[LEAPSECS] Toasting Unix timestamp 1234567890

[Zefram]

Magnus Danielson wrote:

>Zefram skrev:

>>UTC ticked some 63072000.107757997 seconds in that time.  Of greater

>>relevance is that UTC ticked exactly 730 days (as you indicate).

>

>You mean to say it ticked 93072000.107757997 SI seconds in that time? 


No.  In that time there were exactly 63072001.999918 TAI seconds;
the number of SI seconds is very close to that.  But there were about
93072000.107757997 *UTC* seconds (exactly 63072000+10775800/100000003
UTC seconds, in fact).


>Notice that we have several "seconds" here so we may need to qualify 

>them as "SI seconds", "TAI seconds" and "UTC seconds" to make language 

>clear for this particular era.


Yes.  Where I've said "YYY ticked Z.Z seconds" I meant, precisely,
"there were Z.Z YYY seconds".

-zefram