Re: [LEAPSECS] The real problem with leap seconds

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:49:55 +0100

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0601171508290.6977-100000_at_jupiter.obs-besancon.fr>, Francois Meyer writes:
>On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Mark Calabretta wrote:

>1. UTC and TAI share the same rate, the same
> origin, the same second. And therefore :
>
> UTC - TAI = 0

This is wrong, plain and simple wrong.

Please don't come back until you have understood and accepted that this is not the case.

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