How to save datetimes for future events

Re:How to save datetimes for future events by laut on Monday March 23, 2015 @03:43PM (#9252945)

TAI would be better than UTC for the next Lunar eclipse in case you want to be exact to the second ;)

But yes, if you schedule the meeting in UTC, use UTC. The point is not to convert from non-UTC to UTC.

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Re:How to save datetimes for future events by arielby on Monday March 23, 2015 @06:38PM (#9253774)

UTC just provides a labeling for TAI/TT seconds, so a count-of-UTC-seconds timestamp is identical to a count-of-TAI-seconds timestamp (assuming the same epoch). Both are different from a count-of-non-leap-UTC-seconds aka POSIX time.

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Re:How to save datetimes for future events by laut on Sunday March 29, 2015 @09:30PM (#9287221)

You cannot know for sure how many leap seconds there will be in for instance the next 5 years. So you cannot know for sure exactly how many seconds there will elapse from now until for instance July 1st 2020 midnight UTC.

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Re:How to save datetimes for future events by taejo on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @04:25AM (#9255409)

Yes, but we don't know what that labeling will be in the future.

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