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[-] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago
[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago

Or why not just seconds past the epoch?

[-] nabladabla@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

leap second corrected or not?

[-] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Metric seconds or UTC seconds?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

I'm gonna say SI

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago
[-] uis@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

Reasons just states difference, but does not answer why.

[-] dukk@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

On the other hand, TAI does not take into account the variations in Earth's rotation speed, which determines the true length of a day. For this reason, UTC is constantly compared to UT1. Before the difference between the two scales reaches 0.9 seconds, a leap second is added to UTC.

On average, Earth has been slowing down a bit over the past decades, so UTC is currently running 37 seconds behind TAI.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

So leap seconds is advantage here?

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

There's literally a section titled 'why use UTC - not TAI?'.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, CLOCK_TAI here

this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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