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Eventually we will have to get used to having two clocks, slowly diverging. It’s inevitable because we don’t want hours of slip on Earth and eventually we will
by fourthark 4y ago
Eventually we will have to get used to having two clocks, slowly diverging.
It’s inevitable because we don’t want hours of slip on Earth and eventually we will move to other planets which certainly don’t want Earth leap seconds.
- 1970-01-01 4y agoNASA has already started down this road! https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/clock/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/clock/index.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/what-is-an-atomic-clock https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/what-is-an-atomic-clock