[LEAPSECS] leap smear

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Sun Sep 18 19:02:58 EDT 2011



> This may or may not be a boundary condition. The fundamental

> system engineering problem is that there are two different types

> of time, two kinds of clock.


Rob,

You keep saying this, but there's only one kind of clock and
one kind of time. When you get two or more clocks you have
the ability to compare them and measure time interval among
them. Time interval is often an integer (cycles) and fraction
(of cycles). What you are calling time of day is merely time
interval, where the start time is an artificial agreed upon point
in the past. But it's still all time interval.

/tvb



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