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One second! In real terms, does it really count? A few months back, a friend of mine was so happy when she got on a scale and found that she's lost one pound.
by finid 10y ago
One second!
In real terms, does it really count?
A few months back, a friend of mine was so happy when she got on a scale and found that she's lost one pound. One pound!
- 4ad 10y agoThe weight of one person varies around 1kg each day depending of several factors. One measurement of one pound less doesn't necessarily mean any weight loss. She could have even gained some (minor) weight.
- tonmoy 10y agoAt least in the technical would I suppose it's a lot. For example your GPS could be off by miles because of 1 second.
- lucb1e 10y agoBeing off by a millisecond is already too much for practical use, if I recall correctly. GPS needs something more precise anyway, it's not for these systems that we need to include whole-second corrections. And besides, GPS doesn't actually use leap seconds.
- danellis 10y agoGPS time isn't UTC, it's... GPS Time. It's unaffected by leap seconds.