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The author uses graphs with quarter-second increments because they make it look weirder. It's not that weird for time to standstill for 1 second.

• airstrike 7y ago
  Who cares if we're off by 1 second so long as we're all off by the same amount? Maybe we should all wait until this lag adds up to 1 minute before we adjust things instead of perpetually reaching for abstract perfection
  • isostatic 7y ago
    Or conversely why don't we add leap deciseconds, or centi or milliseconds?
    • bloak 7y ago
      It seems to me that the one-second adjustment is exactly the right compromise. It's small enough to be ignored for most practical purposes (many clocks are out by a second anyway), and it means that the offset between TAI and UTC is a round number (37 s rather than 36.852 s), while leap seconds are frequent enough for people to get a bit of practice at handling them, while rare enough that you can avoid them if you're not confident about handling them: don't schedule any rocket launches for 00:00 on Jan 1 or Jul 1. It seems exactly right to me.
• Dylan16807 7y ago
  It is when your video and audio buffers needs to be updated 60 and 200 times a second. And it'll cause all kinds of exciting effects on databases or very active network connections.