[CF-metadata] How to define time coordinate in GPS?

From: Chris Barker <chris.barker>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 15:37:28 -0700

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Jim Biard <jbiard at cicsnc.org> wrote:

> The point I'm trying to make about gregorian_nls is that it lacks any
> mechanism for specifying which time system is being used for the timestamp
> in the reference date & time.
>

and that, indeed is the only thing we need the calendar specification for,
yes? (after that, seconds are well defined).


> or we state that the timestamp in the reference must be UTC. Declaring
> the reference timestamp unambiguously as UTC doesn't force anyone to
> extract absolute times from the time variable in UTC. It does require data
> consumers to convert the UTC timestamp to GPS or TAI or whatever before
> proceeding to extract absolute times from the time variable.
>

Isn't TAI also complete? Or am I all confused?

-CHB

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