Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:17:27 GMT
Roedy Green <see_website at mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:14:08 -0700, rem642b at yahoo.com (Robert Maas,
> see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
> 
> >- Stick to astronomical time, which is absolutely consistent but
> >   which drifts from legal time?
> 
> depends what you are measuring. IF you are doing astronomy, your
> advice would apply. If you are doing payrolls, you want effectively to
> pretend the leap seconds never happened, just as Java does.

	Which leaves you about 30 seconds out by now - smelly.

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