Time Libraries Rough Draft

[Simon Marlow]

On 11 February 2005 10:11, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:

> The problem is that it has been stated several times on this thread
> that there will be no leap second table, nor a way to use one.  If
> that's not correct, then there is no problem.  

I think you've misunderstood.  The plan was never to get rid of TAI
altogether; the discussion has been about whether getCurrentTime should
return TAI or something UTC-based.

In case you missed it, here's Ashley's latest proposal, which includes
full support for TAI and leap second tables:

  http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-February/003158.html

Cheers,
	Simon