System.Time.Clock Design Issues

[David Menendez]

Ashley Yakeley writes:

> In article 
> <r02010400-1037-20A8A440798C11D9A333000393758032@[10.0.1.2]>,
>  David Menendez <zednenem at psualum.com> wrote:
> 
> > Using TAI, we can always convert a date and clock time to a count of
> > seconds and vice-versa without any additional information. To do the
> > same with UTC, we need a table of leap-seconds.
> 
> No. Date and clock times are usually UTC or some offset (time-zone) 
> thereof. Converting to TAI requires a table of leap-seconds.

I should have been more specific. I meant, "we can always convert a date
and clock time specified in TAI to a count of seconds, and vice versa".
-- 
David Menendez <zednenem at psualum.com> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>