Re: Issues with rand()

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On 12/29/10 20:05, Juhász Péter wrote:
> This means that UTC is not in sync with a pure atomic time (such as used
> by GPS), the discrepancy is 34 seconds now.
> If we were to be really anal about timekeeping in gnuplot, we should
> tell users exactly which time standard do we follow.

Anal sounds good to me. Science is all about precision and standards.

UTC would be the most logical standard time to use rather than GPS time 
but it should be clearly documented along with this feature.

If the point it to be able to identify when a graph was plotted , 
syncing with system clock (UTC based) is obviously the way to go. The 
result will never be more reliable than the synchronisity of the system 
clock.

If someone is releasing plots where 34s is important to when they were 
plotted, they will need to be aware of these issues and the doc will 
tell what time reference was used.

/Peter.