[tz] TAI as a time zone?

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Sep 15 04:16:46 UTC 2013


On 09/14/2013 08:15 PM, DataPacRat wrote:
> Would it be feasible to include International Atomic Time (TAI) and/or
> GPS time (which differs from TAI by a fixed number of seconds) in the
> tz database as a time zone separate from UTC?

It should be easy to do for the "right" subdirectory,
which supports proper UTC with leap seconds,
but I'm not sure how well it'd work for the "posix"
subdirectory, which lacks leap seconds.  To find out
for sure, someone should try it and see what happens.


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