[tz] [PROPOSED 3/3] Vanguard form now uses subsecond precision -Brooks

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Jul 31 05:26:30 UTC 2022


On 7/30/22 21:50, Steve Allen via tz wrote:
> should tz take the trouble to implement a
> fractional second which was not realistically accurate?

TZDB records idealized civil time, not actual civil time which would be 
a much harder task. So it doesn't much matter whether the idealized time 
is realistically accurate. This is true for both Amsterdam (where the 
idealized UT offset was not an integer number of seconds) and Paris 
(where it was).


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