Re: [LEAPSECS] Comparing Time Scales

From: Tim Shepard <shep_at_alum.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:26:56 -0500

> > A computer system could represent UTC time in a way which also makes
> > this clear, for example by a structure or abstract data type which
> > includes in it (1) the day number and (2) how-many nanoseconds are we
> > into this day. When executing a leap second insertion, we would get
> > all the way up to 86,400,999,999,999 nano seconds in the day before we
> > wrapped around that field to zero and incremented the day number (one
> > nanosecond later).
>
> How is this really different from using broken-out time and allowing
> the seconds field to go up to 60?

I would agree. Same idea.

                        -Tim Shepard
                         shep_at_alum.mit.edu
Received on Sat Feb 04 2006 - 10:26:02 PST