[LEAPSECS] My FOSDEM slides

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue Mar 3 17:31:13 EST 2015


> GPS time (or whatever) is fine in closed projects/environments, but IMO  a
> UTC and TAI are the "global" time scales, while GPS is specific to the  U.S.

Since GPS time is a fixed offset from TAI, it's easy to convert.

My vote would be to use TAI rather than GPS wherever you are trying to avoid 
leap seconds.

(If you are dealing with GPS itself rather than time in general, it might 
make sense to use GPS time consistently throughout a project.)

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