Paul Rubin said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> As for the primacy of UTC vs. TAI, this is the classical chicken and >> egg problem. The bureaucratic reality is opposed to the physical >> reality. > > Well, if you're trying to pick just one timestamp standard, I'd say > you're better off using a worldwide one rather than a national one, no > matter how the bureaucracies work.
In that case, the obvious choice is Greenwich Mean Time. :-) Seriously, GMT is recognised all over the world (far more so, in fact, than UTC, which tends to be recognised only by some well-educated people, and there are precious few of those), so why not use it? I always leave my PC's clock set to GMT, partly out of this desire to support a single timestamp standard, and (it must be said) partly out of general cussedness. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -www. +rjh@ Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
