Re: [LEAPSECS] Mechanism to provide tai-utc.dat locally

From: Tony Finch <dot_at_dotat.at>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:10:34 +0000

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Keith Winstein wrote:
>
> Even if a program is able to calculate TAI-UTC for arbitrary points in the
> past and near future, what should a library do when a program asks to
> convert between UTC and TAI for some instant further than six months in
> the future?

You should treat this kind of conversion in the same way that you treat
local time zone conversions, which are also unpredictable.

Tony.
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