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Re: [SLE] Daylight Saving time change?
- From: Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:48:22 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <86psc8zm61.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 31/10/06 06:09, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
>>"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>...
>>>System time is always UTC. ...
>>
>>UTC uses the concept of leap seconds. Internal kernel clock ticks
>>measure the number of seconds since midnight UTC, January 1, 1970...
>
> Are those sidereal seconds or mean solar seconds?
Well, the second is a well defined physical unit in SI (see e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second). Something must be terribly
wrong with the acceptance of SI in Canada if you ask such a question.
--
A.M.
> On 31/10/06 06:09, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
>>"Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>...
>>>System time is always UTC. ...
>>
>>UTC uses the concept of leap seconds. Internal kernel clock ticks
>>measure the number of seconds since midnight UTC, January 1, 1970...
>
> Are those sidereal seconds or mean solar seconds?
Well, the second is a well defined physical unit in SI (see e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second). Something must be terribly
wrong with the acceptance of SI in Canada if you ask such a question.
--
A.M.
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