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Re: The leap second is dead
From: Matus Tejiscak
Date: 2022 Nov 19, 15:53 -0800
From: Matus Tejiscak
Date: 2022 Nov 19, 15:53 -0800
It's not clear to me what the plan is. Assuming we fix UTC at a constant offset from TAI, what will the civil time be based on? UT1? I assume we don't want to decouple the civil time from the Sun. Will we rework all time libraries to include DUT1 tables for conversions between UTC and local time?