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Really? TAI cannot locate historical dates indefinitely. TAI doesn't even make sense on timescales that exceed Earth's lifetime. It doesn't encode enough inform
by xelxebar 2y ago
Really? TAI cannot locate historical dates indefinitely. TAI doesn't even make sense on timescales that exceed Earth's lifetime. It doesn't encode enough information to answer questions about elapsed time of even ideal clocks at real, physical locations to arbitrary precision. Fast enough operations on a distributed database can exceed the precision limits of TAI's definition, making it impossible to canonically order events.
- afiori 2y ago> Fast enough operations on a distributed database can exceed the precision limits of TAI's definition, making it impossible to canonically order events. The TAI would be a sincronization target, just like UTC. Any device can have its own high precision clock and periodically sinchronize with other clocks (just like NTP does) which to my knowledge is how most distributed systems work > TAI doesn't even make sense on timescales that exceed Earth's lifetime I disagree, 10^100 seconds in the future is perfectly valid time in any time system > It doesn't encode enough information to answer questions about elapsed time of even ideal clocks at real, physical locations to arbitrary precision. Those clocks would use the TAI to avoid drifting from each other.
- Hizonner 2y ago> I disagree, 10^100 seconds in the future is perfectly valid time in any time system Professor Einstein would like a word...