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Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why not metric time(TAI)?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Or why not just seconds past the epoch?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

leap second corrected or not?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Metric seconds or UTC seconds?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm gonna say SI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reasons.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Reasons just states difference, but does not answer why.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So leap seconds is advantage here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Is that supported in any common operating systems?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, CLOCK_TAI here