[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 45, Issue 1

Ian Batten igb at batten.eu.org
Fri Sep 3 11:32:10 EDT 2010



On 3 Sep 2010, at 15:45, p at 2038bug.com wrote:


>

>> Don't disregard ITU totally here. ITU-T has UTC written into the

>> standards for cross-TelCo billing interfaces/protocols.

>

> ...all the implementations of those standards just use unix time.


I have a dim memory, based on wrestling with one of the *BSD's NTP
implementation in the mid 1990s, that one Unix decided to tick TAI
rather than UTC and move leap-seconds into userspace. But it's all
very dim...

ian



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