Paul Rubin wrote: > Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Same one already given: http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html >> <picky_mode> >> Nope - you referenced leap seconds, not TAI and not that URL > > Oh whoops, I thought I put that url further up in the thread. > I remember grumbling to myself about having to look for it twice. > Maybe I'm just confused. Anyway it's pretty interesting stuff, > as is the Wikipedia article someone else linked to. > Thinking of interesting date & time related stuff, there's another document I remember seeing a while back - probably around early '98. It was an ASCII configuration file that contained to rules for mapping human readable dates & times to UNIX timestamps after taking account of changes of calendar (e.g. the switch between Julian and Gregorian calendars), the introduction of daylight saving time, etc. I remember that it was mostly comment interspersed with mapping rules and that the comments were vast and fascinating, often including copies of e-mail threads.
The file was part of a Linux distro, probably Debian. Some time later, after I set up my first Linux system, I went looking for it without success, probably because by that time (RedHat 6.2) the date mapping rules had become encoded as some sort of binary rule set. I'd very much like to know where I could find a copy of that file. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
