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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen () leitl org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:47:52 +0200
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:49:40PM +0200, Peter Lothberg wrote:
I leave the computer kernels out of this for a second..:-) We have a timescale that runs at constant speed forward it's named "TAI", it is based on the definition on the atomic second.
Notice that in inertial frame dragging context it's provably impossible to synchronize oscillators. Luckily, Earth has negligible frame dragging, for the kind of accuracy we currently need. For operative values of time lunaticism, there's always http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
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