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

submitted 8 months ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've just said 'fuck it' and switched all my clocks to UTC. I don't even care anymore.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Why not metric time(TAI)?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago

Or why not just seconds past the epoch?

[-] nabladabla@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago

leap second corrected or not?

[-] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Metric seconds or UTC seconds?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

I'm gonna say SI

[-] JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Reasons.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Reasons just states difference, but does not answer why.

[-] dukk@programming.dev 4 points 8 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.