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Before leap seconds, they used to broadcast UTC as 'rubber seconds' that were several parts per billion longer than TAI atomic clock seconds. This caused enough
by ahazred8ta 2y ago
Before leap seconds, they used to broadcast UTC as 'rubber seconds' that were several parts per billion longer than TAI atomic clock seconds. This caused enough problems that they stopped doing that and switched to atomic leap seconds. If we started doing that again we would re-encounter the same problems.
- eternityforest 2y agoWasn't that in the largely pre-computer era though? This wouldn't broadcast rubber seconds, you'd just convert as needed between civil and atomic time