Re: [Gnu-arch-users] s/GMT/UTC/

[Cameron Patrick]

Andrew Suffield wrote:

> > > ctime(time() + 10000000)
> > 
> > That's hyperbole.  In most situations, the possibility of the absolute
> > time three months from now being one second different from what you
> > think it will be is irrelevant.
> 
> Add some more zeros. Sooner or later it will become significant.

Sure, the magnitude of the error will become larger over time, but I
don't believe that it's ever likely to be a problem.

If there's an average of one leap second every year, say, that makes
the average difference between real UTC and "she'll be right mate" UTC
about 0.03ppm.  That's sufficiently close to zero that most of the
time, you can ignore it.

Cameron.