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Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] uis@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

Reasons just states difference, but does not answer why.

[-] dukk@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

On the other hand, TAI does not take into account the variations in Earth's rotation speed, which determines the true length of a day. For this reason, UTC is constantly compared to UT1. Before the difference between the two scales reaches 0.9 seconds, a leap second is added to UTC.