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> Yeah, and it will take a millennium for Earth rotation to shift enough for people to notice it. On the other hand, you'd have no problem with summer/winter ti
by endymi0n 7y ago
> Yeah, and it will take a millennium for Earth rotation to shift enough for people to notice it. On the other hand, you'd have no problem with summer/winter time I presume?
No, I don't, as they are just views on a monotonically increasing time scale named UTC that keeps up with Earth's rotation, so that every single thing from climate diagrams to everything else humanity is syncing on keeps working and being comparable.
> We can still use timezones to fix the shift.
Or, we could not do that. Everyone is free to use TAI inside their own projects as they see fit if they have the needs for strictly monotonically increasing time. I would argue that leap second smearing has way less artifacts in practice than bolting time zones onto a shifting UTC time.