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Except that standard civil time cares about the overhead sun angle for some reason, that is why we use the day demarcations of UT1 instead of TAI. If we really
by Veserv 4y ago
Except that standard civil time cares about the overhead sun angle for some reason, that is why we use the day demarcations of UT1 instead of TAI. If we really decided as a society that we really no longer care, then we should switch standard civil time to TAI and do away with UTC entirely, not calcify it as some arbitrary offset from TAI.
- ncmncm 4y ago> "cares about the overhead sun angle for some reason" That is what is proposed to be fixed and that you are arguing against for reasons you don't know or, apparently, care about. Switching civil time to TAI would break everything, most of which cannot be fixed. Random breakage is the problem. More breakage would be strictly worse.
- bonzini 4y agoWell we could introduce negative leap seconds until they align. The problem (UT1 deviating from UTC by more than one second) would be the same as in this proposal.