Time

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Tue Jan 25 19:26:40 EST 2005


In article <5.1.0.14.2.20050125161230.02e21620 at 127.0.0.1>,
 Graham Klyne <GK at ninebynine.org> wrote:

> I believe I'm in a minority and don't challenge the majority decision, but 
> I would prefer a date/time representation based on a pair (days,ticks), 
> where ticks is a count of some suitable fraction of a second.  My reasons 
> have been recorded here previously ... I'll dig out a reference if anyone 
> cares.

I think (days,ticks) might be worth examining for UTC time, since UTC 
has a variable number of seconds for each day (usually 86400, but may be 
one more or one less).

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA



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