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Re:Unix time is bad and needs replacement, not UTC by masklinn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @04:30AM (#33716988)
Astronomers don’t care, they already need 5 different clocks.

Also the allowable variance between UTC and ut1 is 0.9.

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Re:Unix time is bad and needs replacement, not UTC by PeterisP on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @04:42AM (#33717072)
Exactly - and if astronomers don't care, what other reasons are there to require accurate synchronization of UTC (and civil time) with earth's rotation?
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Re:Unix time is bad and needs replacement, not UTC by lostmsu on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:04AM (#33717702)
Considering the rate of progress, timestamps might need to be replaced with reference-invariant coordinates.
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Re:Unix time is bad and needs replacement, not UTC by moffkalast on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:25AM (#33717388)
Or one clock that can switch between 5 different times.
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Re:Unix time is bad and needs replacement, not UTC by masklinn on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:46AM (#33717555)
I didn't necessarily mean 5 different timekeeping devices (though that would probably be more convenient in many cases), rather than an astronomer needs to keep track of multiple different "times" concurrently.
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