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

Well TAI stands for International Atomic Time and "international" generally pertains to Earth-bound locations.

Coordinated Universal Time sounds like it has a bigger inclusivity scope

Otherwise we'd have to rename TAI to "Intergalactic Atomic Time"