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Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)
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[-] 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.

On average, Earth has been slowing down a bit over the past decades, so UTC is currently running 37 seconds behind TAI.

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

So leap seconds is advantage here?

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